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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.
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Front lines of community, Hermann Kappelhoff
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- 2018
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- Title
- Front lines of community
- Subtitle
- Hollywood Between War and Democracy
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Hermann Kappelhoff
- Publisher
- De Gruyter
- Publisher
- 2018
- ISBN10
- 311046523X
- ISBN13
- 9783110465235
- Series
- Cinepoetics
- Category
- Theatre / Drama
- Description
- 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.