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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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
2010.
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| Collection: | Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (x, 256 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780817383510 0817383514 0817316892 9780817316891 |