Front Lines of Community : : Hollywood Between War and Democracy / / 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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cinepoetics – English edition ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XIII, 375 p.) |
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Table of 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