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Additional authors

1. Lincoln, Siân, 1974-

Description

1. xv, 128 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

1. "Examining one of the earliest films made specifically for young audiences in US cinema, Rock around the Clock explores the exploitation production company that made the film and the ways it represented young people, especially in terms of their association with rock 'n' roll music and culture. Providing new avenues of approaching the film, this book looks at how Rock around the Clock (1956) has attracted significant scholarly attention, despite its origins as a low-budget production made by master exploitation filmmaker Sam Katzman. It challenges accounts that see the film's young people as juvenile delinquents, using instead the label 'cultural rebels' as a signifier of youth's ability to resurrect a moribund music industry and rejuvenate a stale youth culture. This book also questions the nature of the label 'exploitation' as applied to the film by examining Columbia Pictures' role as a resource provider for Katzman's film, comparing Rock around the Clock to contemporaneous films with a youth focus that were produced in different industrial contexts and investigating its relationship to adaptation by asking whether the film is an example of a 'postliterary' adaptation. Rich on archival research and textual analysis, Rock around the Clock will interest both film studies and youth cultures scholars"--

Series statement

1. Cinema and youth culture

Subject

1. Katzman, Sam, 1901-1973
2. Rock around the clock (Motion picture)
3. 1900-1999
4. Motion picture industry > United States > History > 20th century
5. Youth in motion pictures
6. Motion pictures and youth
7. Motion pictures and rock music
8. Exploitation films > History and criticism
9. Exploitation films
10. Motion picture industry
11. United States

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
2. History.

Call number

1. MFLP (Rock around the clock) 24-2829

Note

1. "Routledge Focus" -- from cover.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Tzioumakis, Yannis, author.

Title

1. Rock around the clock : exploitation, rock 'n' roll and the origins of youth culture / Yannis Tzioumakis and Siân Lincoln.

Publisher

1. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

Copyright date

1. ©2024

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Cinema and youth culture

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological term

1. 1900-1999

Added author

1. Lincoln, Siân, 1974- author.

Other form:

1. Online version: Tzioumakis, Yannis. Rock around the clock New York : Routledge, 2023 9781315544908 (DLC) 2023021339

LCCN

1. 2023021338

ISBN

1. 9781138682771 hardcover
2. 1138682772 hardcover
3. 9781032587950 paperback
4. 1032587954 paperback
5. 9781315544908 electronic book

Research call number

1. MFLP (Rock around the clock) 24-2829