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xii, 375 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
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.
Hermann Kappelhoff ; translated by Daniel Hendrickson.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [353]-366) and indexes.