TY - BOOK ID - 78676682 TI - Front Lines of Community AU - Kappelhoff, Hermann, AU - Hendrickson, Daniel PY - 2018 SN - 311046733X 3110468085 9783110468083 9783110467338 9783110465235 311046523X PB - Berlin Boston DB - UniCat KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - War films KW - World War, 1939-1945, in motion pictures KW - Motion pictures and the war. KW - History and criticism. KW - War films. KW - genre theory. KW - poetics of affect. KW - sense of commonality. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78676682 AB - 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. ER -