Front Lines of Community
Hollywood Between War and Democracy
1st Edition
Published on 23. April 2018
XIII, 375 pages
978-3-11-046808-3 (ISBN)
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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.
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Content
- Intro
- 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
