Front Lines of Community: Hollywood Between War and Democracy
Front Lines of Community: Hollywood Between War and Democracy (Cinepoetics) by Hermann Kappelhoff, translated by Daniel Hendrickson
English | April 23, 2018 | ISBN: 311046523X, 3110709112 | EPUB/PDF | 390 pages | 83.5/351 MB
English | April 23, 2018 | ISBN: 311046523X, 3110709112 | EPUB/PDF | 390 pages | 83.5/351 MB
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.