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
War films; genre theory; sense of commonality; poetics of affectDOI
10.1515/9783110466966ISBN
9783110466966, 9783110465228, 9783110467147, 9783110466966Publisher
De GruyterPublisher website
https://www.degruyter.com/Publication date and place
Berlin/Boston, 2016Imprint
De GruyterSeries
Cinepoetics, 1Classification
Films, cinema
Film history, theory or criticism
Media studies
Psychology: emotions
Cognition and cognitive psychology
Political science and theory