What happens to a democracy in times of war? How can US war objectives be aligned with the interests of individuals and the community? This was the challenge facing the US during World War II. The relationship between democracy, propaganda, and the public sphere had to be renegotiated. Cinema had the ability to dissolve the resulting contradictions.

Autorentext
David Gaertner , FU Berlin, Germany.

Klappentext

The Cinepoetics book series aims at a theoretical and analytical reconceptualization of the discursivity of audiovisual images. The focus is not on the circulation of media representations but on the modes of this circulation: How do audiovisual images as figurations of media experience relate to other audiovisual images? What does it mean to describe different modes of audiovisual experience and recursivity as forms of cinematic thinking? From this perspective, the series' volumes provide analyses of the aesthetic dimension, historical function and cultural significance of their subjects, making the poetic logic of audiovisual images accessible to an interdisciplinary audience.

Please note also the English-language Cinepoetics book series and the series Cinepoetics Essay.