| Description |
1 online resource (x, 256 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| 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 |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Citizenship in motion pictures.
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Citizenship in motion pictures. |
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Friendship in motion pictures.
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Friendship in motion pictures. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kaplan, Michael A., 1966- Friendship fictions. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2010 (DLC) 2009032238 |
| ISBN |
9780817383510 (electronic) |
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0817383514 (electronic) |
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0817316892 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780817316891 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780817316891 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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