Rock 'N' Film: Cinema's Dance With Popular Music
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (915 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0190842016 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 488 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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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 Cinemas in Los Angeles, and more.. David E. James is Professor of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California
"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 amalgamation, a juncture through which rock and film would incorporate, enhance, and celebrate each other. As the author shows. 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 comprehensive perspective. An essential and exciting read for anyone interested in the historic juxtaposition of Rock an
James' work will substantially raise the level of discourse on the relationship between rock music and cinema." --Rick Altman, author of The AmericanFilm Musical"In Rock 'N' Film, David E. 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. Like Hendrix at Monterey, it leaves us wishing there were even more." --Marc Dolan, author of Bruce Springsteen and the Promise of Rock 'n' Roll"Covering rock 'n' roll filmmaking in its entirety, this accomplished volume is readily accessible and written (as James himself notes) without the jargon that o
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. 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. For two decades after the mid-1950s, biracial popular music played a fundamental role in progressive social movements on both sides of the Atlantic. But in his documentary about Bowie, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, D.A. James adapts the methodology of histories of the classic film musical to show how the rock 'n' roll film both displaced and recreated it.. 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