Friendship Fictions
The Rhetoric of Citizenship in the Liberal Imaginary
2010
The University of Alabama Press (Verlag)
978-0-8173-1689-1 (ISBN)
The University of Alabama Press (Verlag)
978-0-8173-1689-1 (ISBN)
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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.
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.
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.
Michael A. Kaplan is Assistant Professor of Communications and Culture at Indiana University.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.3.2010 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 3 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Alabama |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 456 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8173-1689-2 / 0817316892 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8173-1689-1 / 9780817316891 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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