Friendship fictions
Subtitle: the rhetoric of citizenship in the liberal imaginary
By: Michael A. Kaplan.
Series: Rhetoric, culture, and social critique
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780817316891; 9780817383510
Subjects: Citizenship in motion pictures; Friendship in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: rhetoricizing liberalism; title: Imagining citizenship as friendship; title: friendship and the politics of community: The big chill; title: Friendship, rebel-citizenship, and the feminist critique of liberalism: Thelma & Louise; title: Liberalism, friendship, and the predicament of cybernetic sociality: Lost in translation; title: Race, friendship, and the speculative politics of infinite debt: Smoke; title: Conclusion: the friendship supplement and the rule of allegory.