Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Rock Around the Clock: The Changing of Popular Music
2 It's Only Make Believe (1958–1963)
3 Help! I Need Somebody
4 Shake That Moneymaker
5 Post-Fever Blues
6 It Was the Year That Wasn't: 1982
7 Movie + Soundtrack + Video = $$$ ! ! !
8 Synergizing 1984?
9 Soundtrack Wars
10 Soundtrack Fever II
11 Goooood Morning, Vietnam!
12 Holy Boxoffice, Batman!
13 On the Cutting-Room Floor: Epilogue
Bibliographical Notes
Index
William D. Romanowski is professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His previous works include Reforming Hollywood and Eyes Wide Open.
-This is an encyclopedia of movies that have rock and roll
soundtracks. Listing films chronologically from the 1950s through
1991, the authors offer plot synopses, production and marketing
information, box office and record album receipts, and a summary of
critical reviews for a couple hundred films... For general
readers.- --L. Rabinovitz, Choice -This is the most ambitious book
on rock-and-roll and films so far published. It is valuable in two
ways. First as a work of reference. . . . Second, as a guidebook
through the corridors of the culture industries, it traces the
history of the ways the media have become totally integrated as
industries. . . . A veritable treasure trove of information that
will be indispensable for the foreseeable future.- --David James,
Film Quarterly -What sets this text apart from all other studies on
rock film is thoroughness. . . . A landmark study.- --B. Lee
Cooper, Journal of Popular Culture -In their analyses of the
cross-fertilization among media industries, Denisoff and Romanowski
offer both original and significant contributions to the
contemporary popular music literature. Their examinations--of the
economics of production, marketing, and distribution--offer very
useful insights into those hybrid mechanisms of late capitalism
designed to eliminate all risk from the business of mass
entertainment.- --Journal of Communication
"This is an encyclopedia of movies that have rock and roll
soundtracks. Listing films chronologically from the 1950s through
1991, the authors offer plot synopses, production and marketing
information, box office and record album receipts, and a summary of
critical reviews for a couple hundred films... For general
readers." --L. Rabinovitz, Choice "This is the most ambitious book
on rock-and-roll and films so far published. It is valuable in two
ways. First as a work of reference. . . . Second, as a guidebook
through the corridors of the culture industries, it traces the
history of the ways the media have become totally integrated as
industries. . . . A veritable treasure trove of information that
will be indispensable for the foreseeable future." --David James,
Film Quarterly "What sets this text apart from all other studies on
rock film is thoroughness. . . . A landmark study." --B. Lee
Cooper, Journal of Popular Culture "In their analyses of the
cross-fertilization among media industries, Denisoff and Romanowski
offer both original and significant contributions to the
contemporary popular music literature. Their examinations--of the
economics of production, marketing, and distribution--offer very
useful insights into those hybrid mechanisms of late capitalism
designed to eliminate all risk from the business of mass
entertainment." --Journal of Communication
"This is an encyclopedia of movies that have rock and roll
soundtracks. Listing films chronologically from the 1950s through
1991, the authors offer plot synopses, production and marketing
information, box office and record album receipts, and a summary of
critical reviews for a couple hundred films... For general
readers." --L. Rabinovitz, Choice "This is the most ambitious book
on rock-and-roll and films so far published. It is valuable in two
ways. First as a work of reference. . . . Second, as a guidebook
through the corridors of the culture industries, it traces the
history of the ways the media have become totally integrated as
industries. . . . A veritable treasure trove of information that
will be indispensable for the foreseeable future." --David James,
Film Quarterly "What sets this text apart from all other studies on
rock film is thoroughness. . . . A landmark study." --B. Lee
Cooper, Journal of Popular Culture "In their analyses of the
cross-fertilization among media industries, Denisoff and Romanowski
offer both original and significant contributions to the
contemporary popular music literature. Their examinations--of the
economics of production, marketing, and distribution--offer very
useful insights into those hybrid mechanisms of late capitalism
designed to eliminate all risk from the business of mass
entertainment." --Journal of Communication
"This is an encyclopedia of movies that have rock and roll
soundtracks. Listing films chronologically from the 1950s through
1991, the authors offer plot synopses, production and marketing
information, box office and record album receipts, and a summary of
critical reviews for a couple hundred films... For general
readers." --L. Rabinovitz, Choice
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