Front Lines of Community - Hollywood Between War and Democracy
Verlag | De Gruyter |
Auflage | 2020 |
Seiten | 375 |
Format | 15,6 x 2,2 x 23,0 cm |
Großformatiges Paperback. Klappenbroschur | |
Gewicht | 597 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
Reihe | Cinepoetics - English edition 1 |
ISBN-10 | 3110709112 |
EAN | 9783110709117 |
Bestell-Nr | 11070911A |
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.