Front Lines of Community : Hollywood Between War and Democracy / Hermann Kappelhoff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kappelhoff, Hermann, author.

Series:

Cinepoetics - English edition ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Motion pictures and the war.

World War, 1939-1945.

War films--United States--History and criticism.

War films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (390 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

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 experiental modalities that make history graspable as a continuous process of delineating the limits of community.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Acknowledgments

A Shell-Shocked Face: Prologue

1. Repair Work on the Sense of Commonality

2. The Poetology of Genre Films

3. The Emergence of the War Film Genre: A Construction of its Poetological Origins

4. Genre and History

Genre and Sense of Commonality: An Epilogue

Bibliography

Name index

Film index

Subject index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 16. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9783110467338

311046733X

9783110468083

3110468085

OCLC:

1035556356