Rock '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.

• 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 Film at the University of Southern California. His previous books include The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles (University of California Press, 2005) and the co-edited volume Optic Antics: The Cinema of Ken Jacobs Oxford UP, 2011; net sales: 560)