LEADER 02770nam 22005894a 450 001 9910809466403321 005 20240508093025.0 010 $a0-8173-8351-4 035 $a(CKB)2670000000030190 035 $a(EBL)547657 035 $a(OCoLC)648711531 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000458245 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11329097 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000458245 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10438562 035 $a(PQKB)11129639 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC547657 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse9139 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL547657 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10408278 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000030190 100 $a20090814d2010 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFriendship fictions $ethe rhetoric of citizenship in the liberal imaginary /$fMichael A. Kaplan 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aTuscaloosa $cUniversity of Alabama Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (274 p.) 225 1 $aRhetoric, culture, and social critique 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8173-5938-9 311 $a0-8173-1689-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aImagining 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. 330 $a A criticism often leveled at liberal democratic culture is its emphasis on the individual over community and private life over civic participation. However, liberal democratic culture has a more complicated relationship to notions of citizenship. As Michael Kaplan shows, citizenship comprises a major theme of popular entertainment, especially Hollywood film, and often takes the form of friendship narratives; and this is no accident. Examining the representations of citizenship-as-friendship in four Hollywood films (The Big Chill, Thelma & Louise, Lost in Translation 410 0$aRhetoric, culture, and social critique. 606 $aCitizenship in motion pictures 606 $aFriendship in motion pictures 615 0$aCitizenship in motion pictures. 615 0$aFriendship in motion pictures. 676 $a791.43/653 700 $aKaplan$b Michael A.$f1966-$01664392 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809466403321 996 $aFriendship fictions$94022390 997 $aUNINA