Front Lines of Community

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Front Lines of Community is written by Hermann Kappelhoff and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 311046733X (ISBN 10) and 9783110467338 (ISBN 13).

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.