Friendship Fictions: The Rhetoric of Citizenship in the Liberal Imaginary - Couverture souple

Livre 6 sur 70: Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique

Kaplan, Michael A.

 
9780817359386: Friendship Fictions: The Rhetoric of Citizenship in the Liberal Imaginary
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ISBN 10 : 0817359389 ISBN 13 : 9780817359386
Editeur : University Alabama Press, 2018

Synopsis

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.

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Michael A. Kaplan is an assistant professor in the department of communication studies at Baruch College, CUNY.

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Éditeur
University Alabama Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0817359389
ISBN 13 
9780817359386
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
268
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780817316891: Friendship Fictions: The Rhetoric of Citizenship in the Liberal Imaginary

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ISBN 10 :  0817316892 ISBN 13 :  9780817316891
Editeur : The University of Alabama Press, 2010
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