Friendship fictions [[electronic resource] ] : the rhetoric of citizenship in the liberal imaginary / / Michael A. Kaplan

• Autore: Kaplan Michael A. <1966->
• 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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.: 9910459239603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.