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Mapping the Rockumentary: Images of Sound and Fury is the first anthology to explore the rockumentary as a central component of both the documentary and world cinema. The book includes case studies of bands and performers such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, The Clash, Madonna and Metallica and performers from Asia, Europe and the Americas, making the case for rockumentaries as part of an established and ever-evolving cinematic tradition. With an international and transdisciplinary approach, and addressing rocumentaries in film, television and on the internet, the book explores the form's rich history from the 1950s to the present day - and beyond.

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Mapping the Rockumentary: Images of Sound and Fury is the first anthology to explore the rockumentary as a central component of both the documentary and world cinema. The book includes case studies of bands and performers such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, The Clash, Madonna and Metallica and performers from Asia, Europe and the Americas, making the case for rockumentaries as part of an established and ever-evolving cinematic tradition. With an international and transdisciplinary approach, and addressing rockumentaries in film, television and on the internet, the book explores the form's rich history from the 1950s to the present day - and beyond.Gunnar Iversen is Professor of Film Studies in the School of Art and Culture at Carleton University, OttawaScott MacKenzie is Professor of Film and Media, Queen's University, Kingston

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Mapping the Rockumentary: Images of Sound and Fury is the first anthology to explore the rockumentary as a central component of both the documentary and world cinema. The book includes case studies of bands and performers such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, The Clash, Madonna and Metallica and performers from Asia, Europe and the Americas, making the case for rockumentaries as part of an established and ever-evolving cinematic tradition. With an international and transdisciplinary approach, and addressing rockumentaries in film, television and on the internet, the book explores the form's rich history from the 1950s to the present day - and beyond.Gunnar Iversen is Professor of Film Studies in the School of Art and Culture at Carleton University, OttawaScott MacKenzie is Professor of Film and Media, Queen's University, Kingston

Author Biography

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 Qubec (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).

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors ; Introduction: Images of Sound and Fury, Gunnar Iversen and Scott MacKenzie; Part One: Histories; 1: Music Makers of the Blue Ridge, Greil Marcus; 2: 'I Don't Make Culture, I Sell It!': The Early History of Music Documentation, 1920s-1970s, Laura Niebling; 3: Monterey Pop and the Maturation of the Concert Film, Laurel Westrup; 4: The Sound of Rockumentary: A Consideration of the Documentary Soundtrack, Michael Baker; 5: False Endings, Scott MacKenzie; Part Two: Gender; 6: 'Start Me Up': The Place and Displacement of Women in the Cinema of Rolling Stones, Catherine Strong and Stephen Gaunson; 7: Madonna on Film: Geopolitics, Globalization, and Gender Politics, Anna Westerstahl Stenport; 8: The Freedom to Speak: The Dixie Chicks, Observational Documentary, and Shut Up & Sing, Heather McIntosh; 9: Rock 'n' Roll Family Romances: Rockumentary as Male Melodrama, Gunnar Iversen; 10: Performing Dylan: The Many Lives of Bob Dylan in I'm Not There, Magdalena Fu?rnkranz; Part Three: Aesthetics and Politics; 11: U2's Rattle and Hum: God, Sex, Rock and Roll and God Again, Karine Bertrand; 12: Punk City Symphony: The Clash and Rude Boy, Celine Bell; 13: Listening from the Empty Booth: Performing the Grateful Dead Community in Long Strange Trip, Randolph Jordan; 14: Minimum and Maximum Rock 'n' Roll: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, and Rockumentary Form, Anthony Kinik; 15: 'Everything Was Stories': The Aesthetic Imaginaries of Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, Asbj

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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.--Ib Bondebjerg, professor emeritus, University of Copenhagen

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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.

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Establishes the importance of the rockumentary in documentary studies and in popular music studies

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Establishes the importance of the rockumentary in documentary studies and in popular music studies Transforms the study of rockumentaries, documentary studies and popular music studies Provides in-depth discussions of different sub-genres and forms Case studies include Long Strange Trip , Truth or Dare , Some Kind of Monster , Shut Up and Sing and I'm Not There Mapping the Rockumentary: Images of Sound and Fury is the first anthology to explore the rockumentary as a central component of both the documentary and world cinema. The book includes case studies of bands and performers such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, The Clash, Madonna and Metallica and performers from Asia, Europe and the Americas, making the case for rockumentaries as part of an established and ever-evolving cinematic tradition. With an international and transdisciplinary approach, and addressing rocumentaries in film, television and on the internet, the book explores the form's rich history from the 1950s to the present day - and beyond.

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Transforms the study of rockumentaries, documentary studies and popular music studies Provides in-depth discussions of different sub-genres and forms Case studies include Long Strange Trip, Truth or Dare, Some Kind of Monster, Shut Up and Sing and I'm Not There

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Establishes the importance of the rockumentary in documentary studies and in popular music studies Transforms the study of rockumentaries, documentary studies and popular music studies Provides in-depth discussions of different sub-genres and forms Case studies include Long Strange Trip, Truth or Dare, Some Kind of Monster, Shut Up and Singand I'm Not There

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