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FRIENDSHIP FICTIONS
THE RHETORIC OF CITIZENSHIP IN THE LIBERAL IMAGINARY |
| By: |
Michael A. Kaplan, John Louis Lucaites |
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Hardback |
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£35.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0817316892 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780817316891 |
| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 March, 2010 |
| Series: |
Rhetoric, Culture & Social Critique |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Description: |
A criticism often leveled at liberal democratic culture is its emphasis on the individual over community and private life over civic participation. The author shows that citizenship comprises a major theme of popular entertainment, especially Hollywood film, and often takes the form of friendship narratives; and this is no accident. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
3 illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
The University of Alabama Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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