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David E James

Rock 'n' Film

Cinema's Dance with Popular Music. Sprachen: Englisch. 24,0 cm / 16,1 cm / 3,0 cm ( B/H/T )
EAN 9780199387595
94,30 €
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484 Seiten
Januar 2016
Oxford University Press

For two decades after the mid-1950s, biracial popular music played a fundamental role in progressive social movements on both sides of the Atlantic. 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. Show that presented James Brown and the Rolling Stones as the core of a black-white, US-UK cultural commonality; A Hard Day's Night that marked the British Invasion; Dont Look Back, Monterey Pop, Woodstock, and other Direct Cinema documentaries about the music of the counterculture; and avant-garde films about the Rolling Stones by Jean-Luc Godard, Kenneth Anger, and Robert Frank. After the turn of the decade, notably Gimme Shelter, in which the Stones appeared to be complicit in the Hells Angels' murder of a young black man, 1960s' music-and films about it-reverted to separate black and white traditions based respectively on soul and country. These produced blaxploitation and Lady Sings the Blues on the one hand, and bigoted representations of Southern culture in Nashville on the other. 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. But in his documentary about Bowie, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, D.A. Pennebaker triumphantly re-affirmed the community of musicians and fans in glam rock. In analyzing this history, David E. James adapts the methodology of histories of the classic film musical to show how the rock 'n' roll film both displaced and recreated it.

David E. James is Professor of Film at the University of Southern California. His previous books include The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles (University of California Press, 2005) and the co-edited volume Optic Antics: The Cinema of Ken Jacobs Oxford UP, 2011; net sales: 560)

Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Rock 'n' Film
2. Absolute Beginnings: Blackboard Jungle
3. Jukebox Musicals
4. Dirty Stars: Jayne Mansfield and Kenneth Anger
5. Rock 'n' Roll Noir: Elvis Before the Army
6. Sunshine Elvis: The Devil in Disguise
(inc Morphology of the Elvis Movie)
7. Back in the UK: The English Elvises
8. Beatles I: Richard Lester and A Hard Day's Night
9. Beatles II: Next Morning
10. Bringing It All Back Home: Toward the Folk Documentary
11. D. A. Pennebaker: Documentary from Folk to Folk Rock and Rock
12. Utopia and Its Discontents: Woodstock
13. The Rolling Stones I: The Greatest Rock 'n' Film Band in the World
14. Mick Jagger, Demon Brother
15. The Rolling Stones II: The U.S. Tours, From Concert Film to Film Concert:
16. Back To Black . . . : Soul
17. . . . And White: Country
18. Retrospection and Reflexivity: Rock 'n' Film Suicide
Index

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