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Autore: | Kaplan Michael A. <1966-> |
Titolo: | Friendship fictions [[electronic resource] ] : the rhetoric of citizenship in the liberal imaginary / / Michael A. Kaplan |
Pubblicazione: | Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
Disciplina: | 791.43/653 |
Soggetto topico: | Citizenship in motion pictures |
Friendship in motion pictures | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Friendship fictions |
ISBN: | 0-8173-8351-4 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910785059403321 |
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