Friendship fictions :: the rhetoric of citizenship in the liberal imaginary /

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 majo...

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1. Verfasser: Kaplan, Michael A., 1966-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2010.
Schriftenreihe:Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 256 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780817383510
0817383514
0817316892
9780817316891

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