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Rock 'n' film : cinema's dance with popular music / David E. James.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- James, David E., 1945- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rock films--History and criticism.
- Rock films.
- Motion pictures and rock music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (489 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the mid-1950s, rock 'n' roll amalgamated earlier black and white working-class musical traditions to displace the Great American Songbook's hegemony over Anglophone popular music. At the same time, the classic musical was both displaced and re-created in a new form of film: the rock 'n' roll musical. For the next two decades, the genre's evolution in the United States and the United Kingdom accompanied and sustained the emergence, flowering, and decay of a counterculture. Cinema was second only to records in the production of the new cultural gestalt that the music generated.
- Contents:
- Introduction: rock 'n' film
- Absolute beginnings: Blackboard jungle
- Jukebox musicals
- Dirty stars: Jayne Mansfield and Kenneth Anger
- Rock 'n' roll noir: Elvis before the army
- Sunshine Elvis: The devil in disguise (inc morphology of the Elvis movie)
- Back in the UK: the English Elvises
- Beatles I: Richard Lester and A hard day's night
- Beatles II: next morning
- Bringing it all back home: toward the folk documentary
- D. A. Pennebaker: documentary from folk to folk rock and rock
- Utopia and its discontents: Woodstock
- The Rolling Stones I: the greatest rock 'n' film band in the world
- Mick Jagger, demon brother
- The Rolling Stones II: the U.S. tours, from concert film to film concert: Back to black : soul
- And white: country
- Retrospection and reflexivity: rock 'n' film suicide.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-938762-1
- 0-19-938763-X
- 0-19-938761-3
- OCLC:
- 925521937
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