Table 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
David E. James is Professor of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Written Within and Without: A Study of Blake's Milton, Allegories of Cinema: American Film in the Sixties, Power Misses: Essays Across (Un)Popular Culture, The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles, and more.
"I love this book right from the opening sentence, with its fresh
yet entirely proper reference to Elvis Presley's first (and
timeless) record; the attention paid to the music--not least the
black music--in that bizarre film The Girl Can't Help It; and the
affection everywhere (including the relish of absurdities like the
Teen Age Music International documentary that had Gerry & the
Pacemakers take over from Chuck Berry in mid song). Dip into
it, or read it straight through. Either way, you'll value it."
--Michael Gray, author of Song & Dance Man III: The Art of Bob
Dylan
"This is a first-rate book: well-researched, well-organized,
well-written, and on a topic that is of wide interest yet poorly
represented in print. James' work will substantially raise the
level of discourse on the relationship between rock music and
cinema." --Rick Altman, author of The American Film Musical
"In Rock 'N' Film, David E. James provides a complete overview of
rock music in the movies, from the teenage exploitation flicks of
the mid-fifties to Elvis Presley's decidedly lightweight years in
Hollywood and the Beatles' forays into absurdism. Written with a
director's eye for detail and a songwriter's understanding of the
milieu, Rock 'N' Film is a comprehensive and invaluable guide to
the on-again, off-again romance between rock and the
silver screen." --Bruce Pegg, author of Brown Eyed Handsome Man:
The Life and Hard Times of Chuck Berry
"David E. James' Rock 'N' Film is a valuable, capacious resource,
tracing the intersection of popular music and motion pictures from
Bill Haley to David Bowie, through exploitation films,
documentaries, and every genre in between, on both sides of the
Atlantic. Like Hendrix at Monterey, it leaves us wishing there were
even more." --Marc Dolan, author of Bruce Springsteen and the
Promise of Rock 'n' Roll
"Covering 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." -- CHOICE
"Rock 'N' Film is an erudite and encyclopedic study of cinema's
role in creating the social, cultural, aesthetic, and industrial
worlds known collectively as "rock 'n' roll." His knowledge of
cinema, as well as his clear love for and deep understanding of
popular music as both a sonic and cultural force, make his book an
indispensable treasure trove for studying the role of the popular
arts in shaping the look and sound of American culture...He has
written a highly readable text, one that appeals to a broad
audience and stands as a major contribution to interdisciplinary
scholarship in the humanities."--Phi Kappa Phi, University of
Southern California
"With Rock 'N' Film, David James has provided not only a signal
contribution to the much-needed reimagining of film history and
cinematic intermediality but also one of the most cogent and
revealing histories of Western popular music in the second half of
the twentieth century."--Diacritics
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