Rock Star/Movie Star: Power and Performance in Cinematic Rock Stardom

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Landon Palmer (Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media, Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media, University of Alabama)

Rock Star/Movie Star

Power and Performance in Cinematic Rock Stardom

Landon Palmer (Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media, Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media, University of Alabama)

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Oxford University Press Inc
22 October 2020

Series: Oxford Music / Media

During the mid-1950s, when Hollywood found itself struggling to compete within an expanding entertainment media landscape, certain producers and studios saw an opportunity in making films that showcased performances by rock 'n' roll stars. Rock stars eventually found cinema to be a useful space to extend their creative practices, and the motion picture and recording industries increasingly saw cinematic rock stardom as a profitable means to connect multiple media properties. Indeed, casting rock stars for film provided a tool for bridging new relationships across media industries and practices. From Elvis Presley to Madonna, this book examines the casting rock stars in films. In so doing, Rock Star/Movie Star offers a new perspective on the role of stardom within the convergence of media industries. While hardly the first popular music culture to see its stars making the transition to screen, the timing of rock's emergence and its staying power within popular culture proved fortuitous for a motion picture business searching for its place in the face of continuous technological and cultural change. At the same time, a post-star-system film industry provided a welcoming context for rock stars who have valued authenticity, creative autonomy, and personal expression. This book uses illuminating archival resources to demonstrate how rock stars have often proven themselves to be prominent film workers exploring this terrain of platforms old and new - ideal media laborers whose power lies in the fact that they are rarely recognized as such.

Combining star studies with media industry studies, this book proposes an integrated methodology for writing media history that combines the actions of individuals and the practices of industries. It demonstrates how stars have operated as both the gravitational center of media production as well as social actors who have taken on a decisive role in the purposes to which their images are used.

By: Landon Palmer (Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media University of Alabama)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 163mm, Width: 236mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780190888411
ISBN 10: 0190888415
Series: Oxford Music / Media
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 22 October 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Introduction: Power and Performance in Cinematic Rock Stardom Chapter One: ""And Introducing Elvis Presley"": Hollywood's Making of a Rock 'n' Roll Star into a Movie Star Chapter Two: All Together Now: The Beatles, United Artists, and Transmedia Production Chapter Three: Onstage/Onscreen: Live Performance as Media Labor in the Rock Festival Documentary Chapter Four: Sound and Vision: David Bowie and the Fashioning of the Rock Star as Movie Star Chapter Five: Who's That Girl?: Madonna at the End of Hollywood Screen Stardom Coda: On Visual Albums and Emotion Pictures Further Reading Notes Index"

Landon Palmer is Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media at the University of Alabama. He studies and teaches film, media, and popular music, particularly as they intersect with histories of media industries and stardom.

Reviews for Rock Star/Movie Star: Power and Performance in Cinematic Rock Stardom

Having thoroughly research his subject, Landon Palmer has created a fascinating account of how essential pop stars took their own unique paths to movie stardom. The author's stories are so engrossing that I found myself becoming obsessed with careers I thought I already knew everything about. I couldn't put it down. * Krin Gabbard, author of Black Magic: White Hollywood and African American Culture * Meticulous and finely tuned from start to finish, Landon Palmer's book shines light on the intricate constellations of stardom that span the film and music industries.ARock Star/Movie Star's refreshing readability accords it a crossover potential consonant with the extended appeal of the performers it showcases. * Kay Dickinson, Concordia University * Palmer's admirable book is full of revelations about, on the one hand, rock stars, and on the other, movies.ABut the book's most fascinating sections focus on what happens when rock 'n'A rollers somehow get squeezed into Hollywood movies. * Krin Gabbard, author of Black Magic: White Hollywood and African American Culture *