The Development of Popular Music Function in Film From the Birth of Rock 'n' Roll to the Death of Disco /

• Main Author: Hogg, Anthony (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture
• Subjects: Motion pictures.; Music.; Audio-Visual Culture.

This book offers a unique examination of the development of popular music function in film. It assesses the contribution of popular music to the interpretation of the most significant films, covering the period from rock 'n' roll's initial introduction at the opening ofBlackboard Jung...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Classic American Musical Phase: The Films of Elvis Presley
• 3. The British Invasion Phase: A Hard Day's Night
• 4. The New Hollywood Alienation Phase: The Graduate
• 5. The Disco Phase: Saturday Night Fever
• 6. The Conservative Post-Disco Phase: Footloose and Flashdance
• 7. Afterword.