Genre and "Sense of Community"

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  • Hermann Kappelhoff Freie Universität Berlin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17169/mae.2016.42

Abstract

The aim of the article is to make evident that not all propagandistic strategies to mobilize emotions are alike. It shows how different the ways can be in which the military, the society and the individuel are orchestrated as audiovisual images. Comparing Frank Capra’s WHY WE FIGHT-Series with a film by Leni Riefenstahl, very distinct strategies to influence the spectator and very different ideas of commonality can be demonstrated.

Der Beitrag zielt darauf zu zeigen, dass nicht alle Propagandaformate und ihre Strategien der emotionalen Mobilisierung identisch sind. Er zeigt, wie unterschiedlich das Verhältnis von Militär, Gesellschaft und Individuum audiovisuell inszeniert werden kann. Indem Frank Capras WHY WE FIGHT-Filme mit Leni Riefenstahls TAG DER FREIHEIT – UNSERE WEHRMACHT kontrastiert werden, lassen sich deutlich die Strategien differenzieren, in denen sie auf ihr Publikum einwirken und sehr unterschiedliche Ideen von Gemeinschaft bewerben.

 

Hermann Kappelhoff is Professor for Film Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin since 2003 and is the Director of Cinepoetics - Center for Advanced Film Studies Cinepoetics. // Hermann Kappelhoff ist seit 2003 Professor am Seminar für Filmwissenschaft der Freien Universität Berlin und ist seit 2015 Sprecher der Kollegforschergruppe Cinepoetics - Poetologien audiovisueller Bilder.

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Published

2016-06-23

How to Cite

Kappelhoff, H. (2016). Genre and "Sense of Community". Mediaesthetics – Journal of Poetics of Audiovisual Images, (1). https://doi.org/10.17169/mae.2016.42

Issue

No. 1 (2016): Bilder des Krieges / Images of War

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Special Issue / Themenschwerpunkt

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