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16 produkter
Pin-Ups 1972
Third Generation Rock ’n’ Roll
Inbunden, 2022
247 kr
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Elvis, Eddie, Chuck, Gene, Buddy and Little Richard were the original rockers. Dylan, The Beatles, The Stones and The Who formed rock’s second coming. As the 1960s turned into the 1970s, the crucial question was: who would lead rock ’n’ roll’s third generation?Pin-Ups 1972 tracks the London music …
Yardbirds
The Most Blueswailing Futuristic Way-Out Heavy Beat Sound
Inbunden, 2025
313 kr
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The Yardbirds were trailblazers in the rapid development of pop music in Britain between 1963 and 1968. With members including Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, they helped to set the basic template of what has been known ever since as rock music, and gave rise to one of the most commercially …
Band with Built-In Hate
The Who from Pop Art to Punk
Häftad, 2022
167 kr
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‘Ours is music with built-in hatred.’ Pete Townshend A Band with Built-In Hate pictures The Who from their inception as the Detours in the mid-sixties to the late seventies, post-Quadrophenia. It is a story of ambition and anger, glamour and grime, viewed through the prism of pop art and the …
Hoodlum Movies
Seriality and the Outlaw Biker Film Cycle, 1966-1972
Häftad, 2018, 15+ år
470 kr
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From The Wild Angels in 1966 until its conclusion in 1972, the cycle of outlaw motorcycle films contained forty-odd formulaic examples. All but one were made by independent companies that specialized in producing exploitation movies for drive-ins, neighborhood theaters, and rundown inner city …
Body and Soul
Jazz and Blues in American Film, 1927-63
Häftad, 2005
339 kr
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The minstrel show and striptease played an indelible role in early mass culture and influenced the popular culture that followed. Peter Stanfield focuses on Hollywood to explore this phenomenon. The movies used blackface minstrelsy to represent an emerging urban American theatrical history while …
Horse Opera
The Strange History of the 1930s Singing Cowboy
Häftad, 2002
339 kr
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In this innovative take on a neglected chapter of film history, Peter Stanfield challenges the commonly held view of the singing cowboy as an ephemeral figure of fun and argues instead that he was one of the most important cultural figures to emerge out of the Great Depression.The rural or newly …
'Un-American' Hollywood
Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era
Av Frank Krutnik, Steve Neale m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
457 kr
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The concept of "un-Americanism," so vital to the HUAC crusade of the 1940s and 1950s, was resoundingly revived in the emotional rhetoric that followed the September 11th terrorist attacks. Today's political and cultural climate makes it more crucial than ever to come to terms with the consequences …
Cool and the Crazy
Pop Fifties Cinema
Häftad, 2015
456 kr
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Explosive! Amazing! Terrifying! You won’t believe your eyes! Such movie taglines were common in the 1950s, as Hollywood churned out a variety of low-budget pictures that were sold on the basis of their sensational content and topicality. While a few of these movies have since become canonized by …
Maximum Movies—Pulp Fictions
Film Culture and the Worlds of Samuel Fuller, Mickey Spillane, and Jim Thompson
Häftad, 2011
471 kr
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In the words of Richard Maltby . . . "Maximum Movies--Pulp Fictions describes two improbably imbricated worlds and the piece of cultural history their intersections provoked." One of these worlds comprises a clutch of noisy, garish pulp movies--Kiss Me Deadly, Shock Corridor, Fixed Bayonets!, I …
Hoodlum Movies
Seriality and the Outlaw Biker Film Cycle, 1966-1972
Inbunden, 2018, 15+ år
1859 kr
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From The Wild Angels in 1966 until its conclusion in 1972, the cycle of outlaw motorcycle films contained forty-odd formulaic examples. All but one were made by independent companies that specialized in producing exploitation movies for drive-ins, neighborhood theaters, and rundown inner city …
Hollywood, Westerns And The 1930S
The Lost Trail
Häftad, 2001
346 kr
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For the first time, this book tells the 'lost' story of the 1930s Western. Written from a concern to understand Western films primarily as products of Hollywood's studio system, it recovers the context in which Westerns were produced, exhibited and viewed in the 1930s. Peter Stanfield highlights …
Band with Built-In Hate
The Who from Pop Art to Punk
Inbunden, 2021
203 kr
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‘Ours is music with built-in hatred.’ Pete Townshend A Band with Built-In Hate pictures The Who from their inception as the Detours in the mid-sixties to the late seventies, post-Quadrophenia. It is a story of ambition and anger, glamour and grime, viewed through the prism of pop art and the …
Dirty Real
Exile on Hollywood and Vine with the Gin Mill Cowboys
Inbunden, 2024
209 kr
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This is the tale of how Hollywood, inspired by the success of Easy Rider, sold a cycle of films as the new dirty real. Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Monte Hellman, Jack Nicholson, Kris Kristofferson and Sam Peckinpah, among others, drew on a nostalgia for the gutter and donned bohemian personae, …
Mob Culture
Hidden Histories of the American Gangster Film
Av Lee Grieveson, Esther Sonnet m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
1817 kr
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The gangster is perhaps the most potent figure in American cinema. Yet film criticism has focused almost entirely on a few canonical films such as Little Caesar, The Public Enemy, and The Godfather trilogy, resulting in a limited and distorted understanding of the compelling presence and …
Mob Culture
Hidden Histories of the American Gangster Film
Av Lee Grieveson, Esther Sonnet m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
414 kr
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The gangster is perhaps the most potent figure in American cinema. Yet film criticism has focused almost entirely on a few canonical films such as Little Caesar, The Public Enemy, and The Godfather trilogy, resulting in a limited and distorted understanding of the compelling presence and …
Hollywood, Westerns And The 1930S
The Lost Trail
Inbunden, 2001
1022 kr
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For the first time, this book tells the 'lost' story of the 1930s Western. Written from a concern to understand Western films primarily as products of Hollywood's studio system, it recovers the context in which Westerns were produced, exhibited and viewed in the 1930s. Peter Stanfield highlights …
