Front Lines of Community
Hollywood Between War and Democracy
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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.
About the Author:
Hermann Kappelhoff, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
See the publisher website: De Gruyter
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