The British Pop Music Film [electronic resource] : The Beatles and Beyond /
Glynn, S.author.
The first detailed examination of the place of pop music film in British cinema, Stephen Glynn explores the interpenetration of music and cinema in an economic, social and aesthetic context through case studies ranging from Cliff Richard to The Rolling Stones, and from The Beatles to Plan B.
Description based upon print version of record.
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""1 Introduction: Genre, Academia and the British Pop Music Film""; ""Generic focus""; ""Genre terminology and empirical parameters""; ""Genre and the problems of definition""; ""Genre and life-cycles""; ""Genre and academia""; ""2 The Primitive Pop Music Film: Coffee Bars, Cosh Boys and Cliff""; ""Introduction: evasions and imitations""; ""Coffee bar pop idols""; ""Coffee bar cosh boys""; ""Cliff Richard""; ""3 The Mature Pop Music Film: Bombs, Beatlemania and Boorman""; ""Introduction: rockets and rehearsals""
""The pop music film as political allegory: It's Trad, Dad! (1962)""""The canonical pop music film: A Hard Day's Night (1964)""; ""The colonial pop music film: Help! (1965)""; ""The Chekhovian pop music film: Catch Us If You Can (1965)""; ""Coda""; ""4 The Decadent Pop Music Film: Politics, Psychedelia and Performance""; ""Introduction: Blow Up and the backlash""; ""The pop music film as personal polemic: Privilege (1967)""; ""The pop music film as underground parable: Yellow Submarine (1968)""; ""The pop music film as political diptych: One Plus One/Sympathy for the Devil (1968)""
""The pop music film as finale: Performance (1970)""""Coda""; ""5 Afterlife: The Historical Pop Music Film""; ""The grit and the glam""; ""The punk and the Pink""; ""The postmodern and Plan B""; ""6 Conclusion: Music Matters""; ""An affective genre""; ""Notes""; ""Select Bibliography""; ""Filmography""; ""Index""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Filmography: p. 240-243.
The first detailed examination of the place of pop music film in British cinema, Stephen Glynn explores the interpenetration of music and cinema in an economic, social and aesthetic context through case studies ranging from Cliff Richard to The Rolling Stones, and from The Beatles to Plan B.
Music.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Civilization—History.
Motion pictures and television.
Motion pictures—History.
Film genres.
Music.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Cultural History.
Screen Studies.
Film History.
Genre.