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Rock Star/Movie Star - Power and Performance in Cinematic Rock Stardom (Paperback) Loot Price: R990
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Rock Star/Movie Star - Power and Performance in Cinematic Rock Stardom (Paperback): Landon Palmer

Rock Star/Movie Star - Power and Performance in Cinematic Rock Stardom (Paperback)

Landon Palmer

Series: OXFORD MUSIC/MEDIA SERIES

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During the mid-1950s, when Hollywood found itself struggling to compete within an expanding entertainment media landscape, certain producers and studios saw an opportunity in making films that showcased performances by rock 'n' roll stars. Rock stars eventually found cinema to be a useful space to extend their creative practices, and the motion picture and recording industries increasingly saw cinematic rock stardom as a profitable means to connect multiple media properties. Indeed, casting rock stars for film provided a tool for bridging new relationships across media industries and practices. From Elvis Presley to Madonna, this book examines the casting rock stars in films. In so doing, Rock Star/Movie Star offers a new perspective on the role of stardom within the convergence of media industries. While hardly the first popular music culture to see its stars making the transition to screen, the timing of rock's emergence and its staying power within popular culture proved fortuitous for a motion picture business searching for its place in the face of continuous technological and cultural change. At the same time, a post-star-system film industry provided a welcoming context for rock stars who have valued authenticity, creative autonomy, and personal expression. This book uses illuminating archival resources to demonstrate how rock stars have often proven themselves to be prominent film workers exploring this terrain of platforms old and new - ideal media laborers whose power lies in the fact that they are rarely recognized as such. Combining star studies with media industry studies, this book proposes an integrated methodology for writing media history that combines the actions of individuals and the practices of industries. It demonstrates how stars have operated as both the gravitational center of media production as well as social actors who have taken on a decisive role in the purposes to which their images are used.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Series: OXFORD MUSIC/MEDIA SERIES
Release date: October 2020
Authors: Landon Palmer (Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media)
Dimensions: 234 x 151 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-088841-1
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Easy listening, MOR
Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Easy listening, MOR
LSN: 0-19-088841-5
Barcode: 9780190888411

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