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by Philippe Carles, Jean-Louis Comolli
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
In 1971, French jazz critics Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli co-wrote Free Jazz/Black Power, a treatise on the racial and political implications of jazz and jazz criticism. It remains a testimony to the long ignored encounter of radical African American music and French left-wing criticism....
Out of Sight
The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889-1895
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
"A product of old-fashioned, back-wearying, foundational scholarship, yet very readable, this book is certain to feature importantly in future studies of early jazz and its prehistory. Highly recommended." --Library Journal"This volume makes possible the study of the rise of black music in the...
That Was Entertainment
The Golden Age of the MGM Musical
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
That Was Entertainment: The Golden Age of the MGM Musical traces the development of the MGM musical from The Broadway Melody (1929) through its heyday in the 1940s and 1950s and its decline in the 1960s, culminating in the notorious 1970 MGM auction when Judy Garland's ruby slippers from The Wizard...
Music in Disney's Animated Features
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to The Jungle Book
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
In Music in Disney’s Animated Features James Bohn investigates how music functions in Disney animated films and identifies several vanguard techniques used in them. In addition, he also presents a history of music in Disney animated films, as well as biographical information on several of the Walt...
MuzikMafia
From the Local Nashville Scene to the National Mainstream
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
In October 2001, an unlikely gathering of musicians calling itself the MuzikMafia took place at the Pub of Love in Nashville, Tennessee. "We had all been beat up pretty good by the 'industry' and we told ourselves, if nothing else, we might as well be playing muzik," explains Big Kenny of Big and...
Flight Risk
Memoirs of a New Orleans Bad Boy
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
"James Nolan looks back unsparingly on a time few writers have faced with such clarity and compassion. There's suspense and beauty on every page . . ."
--Andrei Codrescu
Flight Risk takes off as a page-turning narrative with deep roots and a wide wingspan. James Nolan, a fifth-generation...
by J.E. Smyth
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Fred Zinnemann directed some of the most acclaimed and controversial films of the twentieth century, yet he has been a shadowy presence in Hollywood history. In Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance, J. E. Smyth reveals the intellectual passion behind some of the most powerful films ever made...
Todd Haynes
Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
A pioneer of the New Queer Cinema, Todd Haynes (b. 1961) is a leading American independent filmmaker. Whether working with talking dolls in a homemade short (Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story) or with Oscar-winning performers in an HBO miniseries (Mildred Pierce), Haynes has garnered numerous awards...
Mama Rose's Turn
The True Story of America's Most Notorious Stage Mother
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2013
Hers is the show business saga you think you already know--but you ain't seen nothin' yet. Rose Thompson Hovick, mother of June Havoc and Gypsy Rose Lee, went down in theatrical history as "The Stage Mother from Hell" after her immortalization on Broadway in Gypsy: A Musical Fable. Yet the...
Agnes Varda
Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Over nearly sixty years, Agnès Varda (b. 1928) has given interviews that are revealing not only of her work, but of her remarkably ambiguous status. She has been called the "Mother of the New Wave" but suffered for many years for never having been completely accepted by the cinematic establishment...
Hip Hop on Film
Performance Culture, Urban Space, and Genre Transformation in the 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Early hip hop film musicals have either been expunged from cinema history or excoriated in brief passages by critics and other writers. Hip Hop on Film reclaims and reexamines productions such as Breakin' (1984), Beat Street (1984), and Krush Groove (1985) in order to illuminate Hollywood's fascinating...
Stanley Kubrick
Adapting the Sublime
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
Although Stanley Kubrick adapted novels and short stories, his films deviate in notable ways from the source material. In particular, since 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), his films seem to definitively exploit all cinematic techniques, embodying a compelling visual and aural experience. But, as author...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Conversations with Steve Martin presents a collection of interviews and profiles that focus on Martin as a writer, artist, and original thinker over the course of more than four decades in show business. While those less familiar with his full body of work may think of Martin as primarily the "wild...
On Sunset Boulevard
The Life and Times of Billy Wilder
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
On Sunset Boulevard, originally published in 1998, describes the life of acclaimed filmmaker Billy Wilder (1906-2002), director of such classics as Sunset Boulevard, The Lost Weekend, The Seven Year Itch, and Sabrina. This definitive biography takes the reader on a fast-paced journey from Billy Wilder's...