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Covering rock 'n' roll filmmaking in its entirety, this accomplished volume is readily accessible and written (as James himself notes) without the jargon that often mars film studies...Illustrated with a host of frame blowups, this informed, sharp, inviting, and absolutely authoritative book will be the source to beat on the subject of rock 'n' roll movies for quite some time...Summing Up: Essential. All readers. * CHOICE * David E. James' Rock 'N' Film is a valuable, capacious resource, tracing the intersection of popular music and motion pictures from Bill Haley to David Bowie, through exploitation films, documentaries, and every genre in between, on both sides of the Atlantic. Like Hendrix at Monterey, it leaves us wishing there were even more. * Marc Dolan, author of Bruce Springsteen and the Promise of Rock 'n' Roll * In Rock 'N' Film, David E. James provides a complete overview of rock music in the movies, from the teenage exploitation flicks of the mid-fifties to Elvis Presley's decidedly lightweight years in Hollywood and the Beatles' forays into absurdism. Written with a director's eye for detail and a songwriter's understanding of the milieu, Rock 'N' Film is a comprehensive and invaluable guide to the on-again, off-again romance between rock and the silver screen. * Bruce Pegg, author of Brown Eyed Handsome Man: The Life and Hard Times of Chuck Berry * This is a first-rate book: well-researched, well-organized, well-written, and on a topic that is of wide interest yet poorly represented in print. James' work will substantially raise the level of discourse on the relationship between rock music and cinema. * Rick Altman, author of The American Film Musical * I love this book right from the opening sentence, with its fresh yet entirely proper reference to Elvis Presley's first (and timeless) record; the attention paid to the music * not least the black music *

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