US youth films and popular music : identity, genre, and musical agency / Tim McNelis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McNelis, Tim., author.

Series:

Routledge advances in film studies ; 53.

Routledge Advances in Film Studies ; 53

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teen films--United States--History and criticism.

Teen films.

Youth in motion pictures.

Motion pictures and music--United States.

Motion pictures and music.

Music theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

United States youth films and popular music

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

This book brings theory from popular music studies to an examination of identity and agency in youth films while building on, and complementing, film studies literature concerned with genre, identity, and representation. McNelis includes case studies of Hollywood and independent US youth films that have had commercial and/or critical success to illustrate how films draw on specific discourses surrounding popular music genres to convey ideas about gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and other aspects of identity. He develops the concept of 'musical agency', a term he uses to discuss the relationship between film music and character agency, also examining the music characters listen to and discuss, as well as musical performances by the characters themselves

Contents:

pt. I. She's a rebel : girls, guitars, and agency

pt. II. Listening to the other : cultural borrowing and critical reflection

pt. III. Unheard ethnicities : musical construction of ethnic identity and agency.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-317-36740-5

1-315-67053-4

1-317-36739-1

9781315670539

OCLC:

992407133