Currently Out Of Stock
Friendship Fictions
Paperback
€33.34
Collect 100 Reward Points
- Currently Out Of Stock
- Book 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**x2014;with its dynamic pacts, fluid alliances, and contingent communities**x2014;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.
- About The Author
- Michael A. Kaplan is an assistant professor in the department of communication studies at Baruch College, CUNY.
- Product Details
-
- ISBN
- 9780817359386
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press, (11 December 2018)
- Number of Pages
- 268
- Weight
- 412 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 226 x 149 x 20 mm
- Series:
- See all books in this series
- Categories: