Genre und Gemeinsinn : Hollywood zwischen Krieg und Demokratie /

"Based on the premise that a society's sense of commonality depends upon media practices of political communitarization, this study examines how Hollywood was deployed during the Second World War. It shows that Hollywood responded to the crisis of democracy in the war by creating a new gen...

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Main Author: Kappelhoff, Hermann
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:German
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2016]
Series:Cinepoetics ; Band 1
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:"Based on the premise that a society's sense of commonality depends upon media practices of political communitarization, this study examines how Hollywood was deployed during the Second World War. It shows that Hollywood responded to the crisis of democracy in the war by creating a new genre. Using an affective theory of genre cinema, it offers a new characterization of the relationship between politics and poetics in forming commonality"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 420 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-392) and indexes.
ISBN:9783110465228
3110465221