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Book SynopsisRock 'N' Film presents a cultural history of films about US and British rock music during the period when biracial popular music was fundamental to progressive social movements on both sides of the Atlantic.
Trade ReviewCovering rock n roll filmmaking in its entirety, this accomplished volume is readily accessible and written (as James himself notes) without the jargon that often mars film studies Illustrated with a host of frame blowups, this informed, sharp, inviting, and absolutely authoritative book will be the source to beat on the subject of rock n roll movies for quite some time Summing Up: Essential. All readers. * G. A. Foster, CHOICE *
Table of ContentsTable 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
