| Description |
x, 256 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Rhetoric, culture, and social critique |
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Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: rhetoricizing liberalism -- 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. |
| Summary |
"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."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subject |
Citizenship in motion pictures.
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Friendship in motion pictures.
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| ISBN |
9780817316891 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0817316892 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780817383510 (electronic) |
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0817383514 (electronic) |
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