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Autore |
Kaplan Michael A. <1966-> |
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Titolo |
Friendship fictions [[electronic resource] ] : the rhetoric of citizenship in the liberal imaginary / / Michael A. Kaplan |
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Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 2010 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (274 p.) |
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Collana |
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Rhetoric, culture, and social critique |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Citizenship in motion pictures |
Friendship in motion pictures |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Imagining citizenship as friendship -- friendship and the politics of community: The big chill -- Friendship, rebel-citizenship, and the feminist critique of liberalism: Thelma & Louise -- Liberalism, friendship, and the predicament of cybernetic sociality: Lost in translation -- Race, friendship, and the speculative politics of infinite debt: Smoke -- Conclusion: the friendship supplement and the rule of allegory. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A criticism often leveled at liberal democratic culture is its emphasis on the individual over community and private life over civic participation. However, liberal democratic culture has a more complicated relationship to notions of citizenship. As Michael Kaplan shows, citizenship comprises a major theme of popular entertainment, especially Hollywood film, and often takes the form of friendship narratives; and this is no accident. Examining the representations of citizenship-as-friendship in four Hollywood films (The Big Chill, Thelma & Louise, Lost in Translation |
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