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Play the way you feel : the essential guide to jazz stories on film / Kevin Whitehead.
LIBRA PN1995.9.J37 W55 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitehead, Kevin, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jazz Films--United States--History and criticism.
- Jazz Films.
- Jazz musicians in motion pictures.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 380 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "This book-both a narrative and a film directory-surveys and analyzes English-language feature films (and a few shorts and TV shows/movies) made between 1927 and 2016 that tell stories about jazz music, its musicians, its history and culture. Play the Way You Feel looks at jazz movies as a narrative tradition with recurring plot points and story tropes, whose roots and development are traced. It also demonstrates how jazz stories cut across diverse genres-biopic, romance, musical, comedy and science fiction, horror, crime and comeback stories, "race movies" and modernized Shakespeare-even as they constitute a genre of their own. The book is also a directory/checklist of such films, 66 of them with extensive credits, plus dozens more shorter/capsule discussions. Where jazz films are based on literary sources, they are examined, and the nature of their adaptation explored: what gets retained, removed, or invented? What do historical films get right and wrong? How does a film's music, and the style of the filmmaking itself, reinforce or undercut the story?-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Prologue: The "I got rhythm" of jazz movies 1927 & 1946
- Duke's day & first features 1929-1940
- Origin stories 1941-1947
- Bands of brothers 1941-1948
- Young men with horns : the jazz biopic's golden age 1950-1959
- The jazz musician (and fan) as character 1951-1961
- Independents in black and white 1961-1967
- Spectacles 1972-1984
- Suffering artists 1984-1989
- Young lions & historical fictions 1990-2000
- The jazz musician (and fan) as character 1959-2016
- Movies within movies & New Orleans comes back 2008-2019
- Postscript: Print the legend.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Whitehead, Kevin. Play the way you feel.
- ISBN:
- 9780190847579
- 0190847573
- OCLC:
- 1120012562
- Publisher Number:
- 99985041467
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