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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 22 October 2020
- ISBN 9780190888411
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 163x236x27 mm
- Weight 635 g
- Language English 48
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
During the mid-1950s, when Hollywood found itself struggling to compete within an expanding entertainment media landscape, certain producers and studios saw an opportunity in making films that showcased performances by rock 'n' roll stars. Rock stars eventually found cinema to be a useful space to extend their creative practices, and the motion picture and recording industries increasingly saw cinematic rock stardom as a profitable means to connect multiple media properties. Indeed, casting rock stars for film provided a tool for bridging new relationships across media industries and practices.
From Elvis Presley to Madonna, this book examines the casting rock stars in films. In so doing, Rock Star/Movie Star offers a new perspective on the role of stardom within the convergence of media industries. While hardly the first popular music culture to see its stars making the transition to screen, the timing of rock's emergence and its staying power within popular culture proved fortuitous for a motion picture business searching for its place in the face of continuous technological and cultural change. At the same time, a post-star-system film industry provided a welcoming context for rock stars who have valued authenticity, creative autonomy, and personal expression. This book uses illuminating archival resources to demonstrate how rock stars have often proven themselves to be prominent film workers exploring this terrain of platforms old and new - ideal media laborers whose power lies in the fact that they are rarely recognized as such.
Combining star studies with media industry studies, this book proposes an integrated methodology for writing media history that combines the actions of individuals and the practices of industries. It demonstrates how stars have operated as both the gravitational center of media production as well as social actors who have taken on a decisive role in the purposes to which their images are used.
Rock Star / Movie Star makes a valuable contribution to both film and popular music studies. Many books have addressed the role of rock music and rock stars in film, but mostfocus either on the film career of a particular star (like Elvis Presley) or track the influence of rock music on a given genre (like the musical). Palmer's monograph, by contrast, analyzes how rock stars helped to revise the concept of "movie star" and redefine industrial processes surrounding film production in the latter half of the twentieth century.
Table of Contents:
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
