Friendship fictions : the rhetoric of citizenship in the liberal imaginary

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Tác giả: Michael A Kaplan

Ngôn ngữ: eng

ISBN: 0817316892 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN: 0817383514 (electronic)

ISBN: 9780817316891 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN: 9780817383510 (electronic)

Ký hiệu phân loại: 306.44 Language

Thông tin xuất bản: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2010.

Mô tả vật lý: x, 256 pages : , illustrations ; , 24 cm.

Bộ sưu tập: Xã hội, kinh tế, luật

ID: 283889

"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, and Smoke), Kaplan argues that critics have misunderstood some of liberal democracy's most significant features: its resilience, its capacity for self-revision, and the cultural resonance of its model of citizenship." "For Kaplan, friendship - with its dynamic pacts, fluid alliances, and contingent communities - is one arena in which preconceptions about individual participation in civic life are contested and complicated. Friendship serves as a metaphor for citizenship and mirrors the individual's participation in civic life. Friendship Fictions unravels key implications of this metaphor and demonstrates how it can transform liberal culture into a more just and democratic way of life." --Book Jacket.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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