Front Lines of Community
Author | : Hermann Kappelhoff |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2018-04-23 |
ISBN-10 | : 9783110468083 |
ISBN-13 | : 3110468085 |
Rating | : 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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.