Front Lines of Community: Hollywood Between War and Democracy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783110709117)

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.

Author: Hermann Kappelhoff
ISBN-10: 3110709112
ISBN-13: 9783110709117
Publisher: de Gruyter
Language: English
Published: 07/06/2020
Pages: 388
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d