Front Lines of Community. Hollywood Between War and Democracy
Kappelhoff, Hermann – 2018
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.
Title
Front Lines of Community
Author
Kappelhoff, Hermann
Publisher
De Gruyter
Location
Berlin; Boston
Date
2018
Identifier
DOI: 10.1515/9783110468083
Appeared in
Cinepoetics, Volume 1
Language
eng
Type
Text