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Rock around the clock : exploitation, rock 'n' roll and the origins of youth culture

Title
Rock around the clock : exploitation, rock 'n' roll and the origins of youth culture / Yannis Tzioumakis and Siân Lincoln.
Author
Tzioumakis, Yannis
Publication
  • Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.
  • ©2024

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Additional Authors
Lincoln, Siân, 1974-
Description
xv, 128 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Summary
"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
Cinema and youth culture
Subject
  • Katzman, Sam, 1901-1973
  • Rock around the clock (Motion picture)
  • 1900-1999
  • Motion picture industry > United States > History > 20th century
  • Youth in motion pictures
  • Motion pictures and youth
  • Motion pictures and rock music
  • Exploitation films > History and criticism
  • Exploitation films
  • Motion picture industry
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History.
Note
  • "Routledge Focus" -- from cover.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call Number
MFLP (Rock around the clock) 24-2829
ISBN
  • 9781138682771
  • 1138682772
  • 9781032587950
  • 1032587954
  • 9781315544908 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2023021338
OCLC
1378389430
Author
Tzioumakis, Yannis, author.
Title
Rock around the clock : exploitation, rock 'n' roll and the origins of youth culture / Yannis Tzioumakis and Siân Lincoln.
Publisher
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.
Copyright Date
©2024
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Cinema and youth culture
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Added Author
Lincoln, Siân, 1974- author.
Other Form:
Online version: Tzioumakis, Yannis. Rock around the clock New York : Routledge, 2023 9781315544908 (DLC) 2023021339
Research Call Number
MFLP (Rock around the clock) 24-2829
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