Mapping the Rockumentary

Professor Gunnar Iversen is Professor of Film Studies in the School of Art and Culture at Carleton University. Scott MacKenzie is Professor of Film and Media, Queen’s University. His books include: Cinema and Nation (2000); Purity and Provocation: Dogma 95 (2003); Screening Québec (2004); The Perils of Pedagogy: The Works of John Greyson (2013); Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures (2014); Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic (2015); Arctic Environmental Modernities (2017); Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos (2019); and Process Cinema: Handmade Film in the Digital Age (2019).

This book is a milestone in the study of rockumentary as a genre and the way it reflects history, gender and politics. It takes us through the almost uncharted land of this important genre: from early forms of mediated music, to the breakthrough in the 1960s and into the digital era. It is a rich and illuminating analysis of rockumentary and its cultural context.

• Notes on Contributors Introduction: Images of Sound and Fury - Gunnar Iversen and Scott MacKenziePart One: Histories1. Music Makers of the Blue Ridge - Greil Marcus2. ‘I Don’t Make Culture, I Sell It!’: The Early History of Music Documentation, 1920s-1970s - Laura Niebling3. Monterey Pop and the Maturation of the Concert Film - Laurel Westrup4. The Sound of Rockumentary: A Consideration of the Documentary Soundtrack - Michael Baker5. False Endings - Scott MacKenziePart Two: Gender6. ‘Start Me Up’: The Place and Displacement of Women in the Cinema of Rolling Stones - Catherine Strong and Stephen Gaunson7. Madonna on Film: Geopolitics, Globalization, and Gender Politics - Anna Westerstahl Stenport8. The Freedom to Speak: The Dixie Chicks, Observational Documentary, and Shut Up & Sing - Heather McIntosh9. Rock ‘n’ Roll Family Romances: Rockumentary as Male Melodrama - Gunnar Iversen10. Performing Dylan: The Many Lives of Bob Dylan in I’m Not There - Magdalena FürnkranzPart Three: Aesthetics and Politics11. U2’s Rattle and Hum: God, Sex, Rock and Roll and God Again - Karine Bertrand12. Punk City Symphony: The Clash and Rude Boy - Celine Bell13. Listening from the Empty Booth: Performing the Grateful Dead Community in Long Strange Trip - Randolph Jordan14. Minimum and Maximum Rock ‘n’ Roll: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, and Rockumentary Form - Anthony Kinik15. ‘Everything Was Stories’: The Aesthetic Imaginaries of Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus - Asbjørn Grønstad and Øyvind VågnesPart Four: Counter-Cultures16. Chile: The Rock of Political Culture and the Hard Place of Cultural Policy - Jorge Saavedra Utman and Toby Miller17. Psychedelia and Rebelliousness in Times of Dictatorship: Argentinian Rockumentaries (1973-1983) - Javier Campo and Tomás Crowder-Taraborrelli18. Harmonium in California: Musically Imagined Communities and the Rockumentary Form - Eric Fillion19. Stations of the Crass: Counter-Culture and the Anarcho-Punk Movement - Asbjørn Tiller20. Cars and Guitars, or, Detroit and the MC5: On Representations of Music and Place in MC5: A True Testimonial - Lindsey EckenrothPart Five: Futures21. Unknowable Dogs - Gary Kibbins22. ‘This is a F**king Business’: The Concert Tour in the 1970s Fiction Film - Julie Lobalzo Wright23. Live from the Cineplex: The Concert Film as Event Cinema since the 2000s - Ian Robinson24. Documenting Deities: Touch and K-pop Fandom on YouTube - Eric Chalfant and Ali Na25. Ritual in Transfigured Time - Greil Marcus