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Front lines of community : Hollywood between war and democracy /

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 fo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kappelhoff, Hermann (Autor)
Otros Autores: Hendrickson, Daniel, 1963- (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]
Colección:Cinepoetics ; volume 1
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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