{"product_id":"rock-n-film-cinemas-dance-with-popular-music-9780199387595","title":"Rock 'n' Film: Cinema's Dance with Popular Music","description":"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, \u003cem\u003eRock 'N' Film\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese include \u003cem\u003eRock Around the Clock\u003c\/em\u003e and other 1950s jukebox musicals; the films Elvis made before being drafted, especially\u003cem\u003e King Creole\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as the formulaic comedies in which Hollywood abused his genius in the 1960s; early documentaries such as \u003cem\u003eThe T.A.M.I. Show\u003c\/em\u003e that presented James Brown and the Rolling Stones as the core of a black-white, US-UK cultural commonality; \u003cem\u003eA Hard Day's Night\u003c\/em\u003e that marked the British Invasion; \u003cem\u003eDont Look Back, Monterey Pop, Woodstock, \u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter the turn of the decade, notably \u003cem\u003eGimme Shelter, \u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eLady Sings the Blues\u003c\/em\u003e on the one hand, and bigoted representations of Southern culture in \u003cem\u003eNashville\u003c\/em\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003eZiggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars\u003c\/em\u003e, D.A. Pennebaker triumphantly re-affirmed the community of musicians and fans in glam rock. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David E. James\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/06\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 488\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199387595\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid E. James\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eWritten Within and Without: A Study of Blake's Milton, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eAllegories of Cinema: American Film in the Sixties, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003ePower Misses: Essays Across (Un)Popular Culture, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles\u003c\/em\u003e, and more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40797504209011,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":78.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_c740f669-042d-4fce-bc1e-2284004bb38d.jpg?v=1682001679","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/rock-n-film-cinemas-dance-with-popular-music-9780199387595","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}