: Hermann Kappelhoff
: Front Lines of Community Hollywood Between War and Democracy
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
: 9783110468083
: Cinepoetics ? English editionISSN
: 1
: CHF 79.60
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: Fotografie, Film, Video, TV
: English
: 388
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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.

Hermann Kappelhoff, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.