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  title info:
    title: Justice in the Plays and Films of Martin McDonagh
  name:
    name part: Jordan, Eamonn.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: IX, 145 p. 1 illus. online resource.
  abstract: "Eamonn Jordan's comprehensive exploration of how certain forms of justice, and its institutional enactment, figure in the many works of Martin McDonagh offers an invaluable critical guide to an oeuvre that engages deeply, and often enigmatically, with legal and philosophical questions." - R. Barton Palmer, Professor of Literature at Clemson University and author or editor of notable books including After Hitchcock: Influence, Imitation, and Intertextuality (2006). This book interrogates the various manifestations of rival systems of justice in the plays and films of Martin McDonagh, in analysis informed by the critical writings of Michael J. Sandel, Steven Pinker, Julia Kristeva, and in particular Amartya Sen on violence, justice, equality and the law. In McDonagh's works, failures to investigate adequately criminal actions are matched by multiple forced confessions and umpteen miscarriages of justice. The author explores McDonagh's creative worlds as ones where distinctions between victim and perpetrator and guilt and innocence are precarious, where the burden of truth seldom reaches the threshold of beyond reasonable doubt and where the punishments and rewards of justice are applied randomly. This project considers the abject nature of justice in McDonagh's writing, with the vast implications of justice being fragile, suspect, piecemeal, deviant, haphazard and random. Tentative forms of justice are tempered and then threatened by provocative, anarchic and abject humour. As the author argues, McDonagh's writing cleverly circulates rival, incompatible and comparative systems of justice in order to substantiate the necessities and virtues of justice.
  table of contents: Introduction: Beware of Justice -- 1. CSI Connemara and State Incompetence: The Beauty Queen of Leenane, A Skull in Connemara (1997) and The Lonesome West -- 2. Unreasonable Doubt: Hangmen -- 3. To the Letter of the Law:The Pillowman -- 4. To the Victim the Spoils of Justice: Six Shooter, A Behanding in Spokane and The Lieutenant of Inishmore -- 5. Revengers' Charter: In Bruges, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and Seven Psychopaths -- 6. Conclusion: Abject Justice/Abject Laughter.
  note: by Eamonn Jordan.
  subject:
    topic: Motion pictures-Production and direction
  subject:
    topic: British literature
  subject:
    topic: Film genres
  subject:
    topic: Directing
  subject:
    topic: British and Irish Literature
  subject:
    topic: Genre
  classification: PN1995.9.P7
  classification: 791.4
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783030304539
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30453-9
  record info:
    record creation date: 191111
    record change date: 20191220125612.0
    record identifier: 978-3-030-30453-9