Rock 'N' Film: Cinema's Dance With Popular Music
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (811 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0190842016 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 488 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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James is Professor of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Written Within and Without: A Study of Blake's Milton,Allegories of Cinema: American Film in the Sixties,Power Misses: Essays Across (Un)Popular Culture,The Most Typical Avant-Garde:History and Geography of Minor Cin
James provides a complete overview of rock music in the movies, from the teenage exploitation flicks of the mid-fifties to Elvis Presley's decidedly lightweight years in Hollywood and the Beatles' forays into absurdism. Written with a director's eye for detail and a songwriter's understanding of the milieu, Rock 'N' Film is a comprehensive and invaluable guide to the on-again, off-again romance between rock and the silver screen." --Bruce Pegg, author of Brown Eyed Handsome Man: The Life and Hard Times of Chuck Berry"David E. All readers." -- CHOICE. James' Rock 'N' Film is a valuable, capacious resource,
"Highly recommended!" according to MCR. A truly remarkable achievement! On a second reading through Rock 'n' Film, I am astonished by the depth of insight into British and American culture that can be gleaned from a careful examination of the coming together of the mid-20th century's two most explosive and influential art forms. As both the music industry and the film industry struggled for dominance, this book guides us toward understanding the inevitability of their amalg. Dale Wright said This is an amazing book, the first full analytical look at the. This is an amazing book, the first full analytical look at the inevitable coming together of Rock and Roll with the Hollywood film industry. David James offers a brilliant analysis of the historically shifting relations between the newly emerging power of rock music and the already established dominance of film. From Rock Around the Clock to Gimme Shelter, and all of the historic films in between, this hard-driving book puts it all in
Balancing rock's capacity for utopian popular cultural empowerment with its usefulness for the capitalist media industries, Rock 'N' Film explores how the music's contradictory potentials were reproduced in various kinds of cinema, including major studio productions, minor studios' exploitation projects, independent documentaries, and the avant-garde.These include Rock Around the Clock and other 1950s jukebox musicals; the films Elvis made before being drafted, especially King Creole, as well as the formulaic comedies in which Hollywood abused his genius in the 1960s; early documentaries such as The T.A.M.I. For two decades after the mid-1950s, biracial popular music played a fundamental role in progressive social movements on both sides of the Atlantic. Ending with the deaths of their stars, both films implied that rock 'n' roll had died or even, as David Bowie proclaimed, that it had committed suicide. After the turn of the decade, notably Gimme Shelter, in which