Front Lines of Community
Hollywood Between War and Democracy
Produzione su ordinazione
Dettagli prodotto
- Casa editrice
- De Gruyter
- Pubblicato
- 2020
- Lingua
- English
- Pagine
- 392
- Info
- 392 Pagine
230 mm x 155 mm - ISBN
- 978-3-11-070911-7
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.
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.
Informazioni sull'autore
Hermann Kappelhoff , Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.