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Front Lines of Community : Hollywood Between War and Democracy
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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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- ISBN-13: 9783110709117
- ISBN-10: 3110709112
- Publisher: de Gruyter
- Publish Date: July 2020
- Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.81 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.21 pounds
- Page Count: 388
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