Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ474104
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1993
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(Re)constituting Community through Narrative Argument: "Eros" and "Philia" in "The Big Chill."
Jasinski, James
Quarterly Journal of Speech, v79 n4 p467-86 Nov 1993
Analyzes the way a specific narrative text (Lawrence Kasdan's 1983 feature film "The Big Chill") confronts the relationship between communal norms and political possibilities. Shows how the film enacts a complex disjunctive narrative argument endorsing a specific form of communal affiliation (what Hannah Arendt refers to as "Philia") and rejecting its opposite (Arendt's sense of "Eros"). (SR)
Descriptors: Community, Community Cooperation, Discourse Analysis, Film Criticism, Films, Group Unity, Higher Education, Narration
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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