Front Lines of Community
Hollywood Between War and Democracy
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Produktdetails
- Verlag
- De Gruyter
- Erschienen
- 2018
- Sprache
- English
- Seiten
- 388
- Infos
- 388 Seiten
53 b/w and 24 col. ill.
23 cm x 15.5 cm - ISBN
- 978-3-11-046523-5
Hauptbeschreibung
Based on the premise that a society’s sense of commonality depends upon media practices, this study examines how Hollywood responded to the crisis of democracy during the Second World War by creating a new genre - the war film. Developing an affective theory of genre cinema, the study’s focus on the sense of commonality offers a new characterization of the relationship between politics and poetics. It shows how the diverse ramifications of genre poetics can be explored as a network of experiental modalities that make history graspable as a continuous process of delineating the limits of community.
Langtext
Based on the premise that a society’s sense of commonality depends upon media practices, this study examines how Hollywood responded to the crisis of democracy during the Second World War by creating a new genre - the war film. Developing an affective theory of genre cinema, the study’s focus on the sense of commonality offers a new characterization of the relationship between politics and poetics. It shows how the diverse ramifications of genre poetics can be explored as a network of experiental modalities that make history graspable as a continuous process of delineating the limits of community.
Über den AutorIn
Hermann Kappelhoff , Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.