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 foc...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston :
Walter De Gruyter,
[2018]
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| Series: | Cinepoetics ;
v. 1. |
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| Summary: | 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 experiential modalities that make history graspable as a continuous process of delineating the limits of community. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 375 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [353]-366) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9783110465235 311046523X |