Friendship fictions : the rhetoric of citizenship in the liberal imaginary / Michael A. Kaplan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaplan, Michael A., 1966-

Series:

Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.

Rhetoric, culture, and social critique

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citizenship in motion pictures.

Friendship in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

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

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8351-4

OCLC:

648711531