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The British pop music film : the Beatles and beyond / Stephen Glynn.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.M86 G59 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Glynn, Stephen.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Musical films--Great Britain--History and criticism.
- Musical films.
- Popular music--Social aspects--Great Britain--History.
- Popular music.
- Motion pictures and music.
- Popular music--Social aspects.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Summary:
- "From Cliff Richard to The Rolling Stones, and from The Beatles to Plan B, pop music has been inseparable from its cinematic exploitation. This book constitutes the first delivered examination of the place of the pop music film in British cinematic and musical history. It explores the way music and film have exerted a mutual influence at an economic, social and artistic level. From The Tommy Steel Story, a cheap and cheerful 'cash in' on what was considered a passing fad, through Richard Lester's innovative and globally successful Beatles vehicles and on to the Jungian artistic maze of Mick Jagger's Performance, the 1950s and 1960s saw pop acts and directors create an entire life-cycle for a new film genre. Thereafter, its intermittent revivals, be it Slade in Flame or the Spice Girls in Spice World, have kept sound and vision inseparable in the public consciousness, revisiting and reshaping our pop and film heritage."
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: Genre, Academia and the British Pop Music Film 1
- Generic focus 1
- Genre terminology and empirical parameters 2
- Genre and the problems of definition 4
- Genre and life-cycles 5
- Genre and academia 7
- 2 The Primitive Pop Music Film: Coffee Bars, Cosh Boys and Cliff 10
- Introduction: evasions and imitations 10
- Coffee bar pop idols 14
- Coffee bar cosh boys 33
- Cliff Richard 47
- 3 The Mature Pop Music Film: Bombs, Beatlemania and Boorman 69
- Introduction: rockets and rehearsals 69
- The pop music film as political allegory: It's Trad, Dad! (1962) 74
- The canonical pop music film: A Hard Day's Night (1964) 82
- The colonial pop music film: Help! (1965) 94
- The Chekhovian pop music film: Catch Us If You Can (1965) 104
- Coda 114
- 4 The Decadent Pop Music Film: Politics, Psychedelia and Performance 116
- Introduction: Blow Up and the backlash 116
- The pop music film as personal polemic: Privilege (1967) 120
- The pop music film as underground parable: Yellow Submarine (1968) 131
- The pop music film as political diptych: One Plus One/Sympathy for the Devil (1968) 141
- The pop music film as finale: Performance (1970) 152
- Coda 163
- 5 Afterlife: The Historical Pop Music Film 164
- The grit and the glam 164
- The punk and the Pink 177
- The postmodern and Plan B 191
- 6 Conclusion: Music Matters 210
- An affective genre 210.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230392229
- 0230392229
- OCLC:
- 825047289
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