Front Lines of Community: Hollywood Between War and Democracy

by Hermann Kappelhoff

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 311046523X
• ISBN13: 9783110465235
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary