Author : Hermann Kappelhoff
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783110467338
Front Lines of Community by Hermann Kappelhoff Pdf
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.