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Vigilante Justice in Society and Popular Culture offers a transnational investigation of vigilantism and its context across a range of eleven different jurisdictions. Focusing on vigilante justice in popular culture, this unique collection enriches the debate by adding the opportunity for comparison which has been lacking in scholarly literature.
List of contents
Introduction: Vigilantism - an Overview
Peter Robson and Ferdinando Spina
Part I: The Anglophone World
1. American Vigilantism - Popular Justice and Popular Culture
Michael Asimow
2. Vigilantes, the Law and Popular Culture - The British Experience
Peter Robson
3. Vigilante Frontier Communities on Australian Screens: Bushrangers, Bikies, and Bogans
Lili Pâquet
4. Vigilante Justice in Canada
Rebecca Johnson
Part II: European Experiences
5. Vigilante Justice in Germany
Franziska Stürmer
6. Vigilantism - the Greek Approach
Nickos Myrtou and Stamatis Poulakidakos
7. Vigilantes, the Law and Popular Culture - The Italian Experience
Ferdinando Spina
8. The Punishing Hand of Vigilante Justice in Poland
Joanna Osiejewicz
9. Margins Without Justice: Revenge in João Canijo's Portuguese Cinema
Júlia Garraio
Part III: A South American Perspective
10. "You Said Perpetual!" Approaches to Vigilantism in Argentine Culture
Sebastian Viqueira
11. Vigilante Justice and the Rule of Death: The Existential Threat to the State and Its People in Brazil
Pedro Fortes
About the author
Edited by Peter Robson and Ferdinando Spina - Contributions by Michael Asimow; Pedro Fortes; Júlia Garraio; Rebecca Johnson; Nickos Myrtou; Joanna Osiejewicz; Lili Pâquet; Stamatis Poulakidakos; Peter Robson; Ferdinando Spina; Franziska Stürmer and Sebast
