Front Lines of Community : Hollywood Between War and Democracy
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| Title: | Front Lines of Community : Hollywood Between War and Democracy |
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| 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. |
| Authors: | Hermann Kappelhoff |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Politics in motion pictures, Motion pictures--Political aspects--United States, War films--History and criticism, World War, 1939-1945--Motion pictures and the war, War films--United States--History and criticism, Motion pictures--United States--History--20th century |
| Categories: | PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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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| ISBN: | 9783110465235 9783110709117 9783110467338 9783110468083 |
