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Rock on film : the movies that rocked the big screen / Fred Goodman ; foreword by Michael Lindsay-Hogg.

by Goodman, Fred, author.

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Philadelphia : Running Press, 2022.

Motion pictures and rock music.

Rock films -- History and criticism.

Music -- History.

9780762478439 (hardcover) :

0762478438 (hardcover)

ix, 278 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Foreword / by Sir Michael Lindsay-Hogg -- Between the sprockets: A history of rock on film -- A hard day's night -- Dont look back -- Jailhouse rock -- The TAMI show -- Woodstock -- Gimme shelter -- The last waltz -- Stop making sense -- Almost famous -- A conversation with Cameron Crowe: "The better the song is, the tougher it is to marry to cinema" -- I'm not there -- This is Spinal Tap -- Monterey Pop -- Metallica: Some Kind of Monster -- The Buddy Holly story/La Bamba -- Viva Las Vegas -- The Rocky Horror Picture Show -- The Girl Can't Help It -- Mystery Train -- Inside Llewyn Davis -- 20 Feet From Stardom -- A conversation with Jim Jarmusch: "The music tends to guide me first" -- Straight Outta Compton -- Ladies & Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains -- Quadrophenia -- The Decline of Western Civilization: Part I -- High Fidelity -- Rock 'n' Roll High School -- Pink Floyd: The Wall -- Laurel Canyon -- The Harder They Come -- Singles -- A conversation with Penelope Spheeris: "People that make movies generally do not understand music" -- Ray -- Hairspray -- Smithereens -- A Star is Born/Gaga: Five Foot Two -- Get On Up -- The Runaways -- Oil City Confidential -- Beware of Mr. Baker -- Purple Rain -- Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll -- A conversation with Taylor Hackford: "I wanted to make a portrait film of the most difficult man in rock and roll" -- The Blues Brothers -- Frank -- 8 Mile -- American Graffiti -- Alice's Restaurant -- Privilege -- The Black Godfather -- Standing in the Shadows of Motown -- Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll -- Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story -- A conversation with John Waters: "The Beatles were too cheery for me."

"[This book] is the ultimate guide exploring the electrifying, entertaining, and often daring marriage of rock & roll cinema"--

When the use of Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock" turned 1955's Blackboard Jungle into a teen sensation and a box-office smash, it proved the opening shot in a cinematic and cultural revolution. Starting with Elvis Presley and the teensploitation films of the '50s and '60s, in Rock on Film award-winning author and former Rolling Stone editor Fred Goodman takes readers on a wide-ranging journey through film and pop history. Along the way, he measures the transformative impact of the mid-'60s landmarks A Hard Day's Night and Dont Look Back and how they seeded an almost unbelievably broad genre of films made by increasingly ambitious musicians and filmmakers across the past seven decades. From the carefree to the complex, the mindless to the mind-bending, rock films have staked out their own turf by simultaneously celebrating innocence and challenging artistic and social conventions. With an insightful round-up of fifty must-see rock films spanning crowd-pleasers, art-house favorites, underground gems, and undisputed classics, Rock on Film surveys the nearly seventy-year canon of a genre like no other. A series of original interviews with Cameron Crowe, Jim Jarmusch, Penelope Spheeris, Taylor Hackford, and John Waters illuminates how rock has influenced the work of some of the most divergent and thoughtful directors in movie history. Illustrated throughout by more than 150 full-color and black-and-white images, Rock on Film brings the history of music in the movies to vivid life.--

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