For many people, the cinematic vigilante has been shaped by Charles
Bronson's character in Death Wish and its sequels. But screen
vigilantes have taken many guises, from Old West lynch mobs and
rogue police officers to rape-avengers and military-trained
equalizers. This book recounts the varied representations of such
characters in films like The Birth of a Nation, which celebrated
the violence of the Ku Klux Klan, and Taxi Driver, Falling Down and
You Were Never Really Here, in which the vigilante impulse was
symptomatic of mental instability. It also considers the extent to
which fictional vigilantism functions as social commentary and to
what degree it is simply stoking popular fears.
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