Genre und Gemeinsinn. Hollywood zwischen Krieg und Demokratie
Abstract
Based on the premise that a society’s sense of commonality depends upon media practices of political communitarization, this study examines how Hollywood was deployed during the Second World War. It shows that Hollywood responded to the crisis of democracy in the war by creating a new genre. Using an affective theory of genre cinema, it offers a new characterization of the relationship between politics and poetics in forming commonality.
Keywords
poetics of affect; War films; genre theory; sense of commonalityISBN
9783110466966, 9783110467147Publisher
De GruyterPublisher website
http://www.degruyter.com/Publication date and place
2016Series
Cinepoetics. Poetologien audiovisueller Bilder,Classification
Political ideologies