Justice in the Plays and Films of Martin McDonagh

• Main Author: Jordan, Eamonn (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Motion pictures-Production and direction.; British literature.; Film genres.; Directing.; British and Irish Literature.; Genre.

"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.&qu...

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.