Front Lines of Community - Hollywood Between War and Democracy

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.

Product details

• Authors: Hermann Kappelhoff
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2020
• EAN: 9783110709117
• ISBN: 978-3-11-070911-7
• No. of pages: 375
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 22 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 597 g
• Illustrations: 53 b/w and 24 col. ill.
• Series: Cinepoetics; Cinepoetics - English edition; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV