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Rock 'N' Film - Cinema's Dance With Popular Music (Paperback)
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Rock 'N' Film - Cinema's Dance With Popular Music (Paperback)
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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.
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