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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Kappelhoff, Hermann,
• MitwirkendeR: Hendrickson, Daniel,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Cinepoetics – English edition , 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIII, 375 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110468083; 9783110762488; 9783110719550; 9783110604252; 9783110603255; 9783110604184; 9783110603187
• ISSN: 2569-4294
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110468083
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Hermann Kappelhoff.

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.