Landon Palmer

Rock Star/Movie Star

Power and Performance in Cinematic Rock Stardom

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Produktbeschreibung

From Elvis to Madonna, Rock Star/Movie Star explores why rock stars have been useful for movies, and why movies have been useful for rock stars. This in-depth history traverses how rock stars' screen performances have served motion picture and recording industries as well as offered new potentialities for movie stardom.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780190888411
• ISBN-10: 0190888415
• Artikelnr.: 59504132

Autorenporträt

Landon Palmer is Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media at the University of Alabama. He studies and teaches film, media, and popular music, particularly as they intersect with histories of media industries and stardom.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Power and Performance in Cinematic Rock Stardom
* Chapter One: "And Introducing Elvis Presley": Hollywood's Making of a
Rock 'n' Roll Star into a Movie Star
* Chapter Two: All Together Now: The Beatles, United Artists, and
Transmedia Production
* Chapter Three: Onstage/Onscreen: Live Performance as Media Labor in
the Rock Festival Documentary
* Chapter Four: Sound and Vision: David Bowie and the Fashioning of the
Rock Star as Movie Star
* Chapter Five: Who's That Girl?: Madonna at the End of Hollywood
Screen Stardom
* Coda: On Visual Albums and Emotion Pictures
* Further Reading
* Notes
* Index