TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Law and the Foucauldian Wild West in Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate
JO  - Law, culture and the humanities
A1  - Young, Diana
SP  - 310
EP  - 326
VL  - 7
IS  - 2
N2  - Classic western films often conceive of the west as existing in a legal void, where the central conflict is a binary one between lawlessness and legalization. The law is a monolith, and the legalization process is linear -- a narrative of the west's inexorable evolution toward a modern state governed by the rule of law. Cimino's  Heaven's Gate presents a more postmodernist, pluralist conception. There is no grand narrative of legalization; the film envisages a discourse of justice emerging from the interaction of a variety of discourses, and which appears to be a unity only from the vantage point of history.<p /> 
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SN  - 1743-8721
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1743872109355555
ID  - ref1
ER  -