E-raamat: Rock 'n' Roll Plays Itself: A Screen History

Rock 'n' Roll Plays Itself excels in its understanding of how the music is characterized by its unique relationship to time, its seizing of the moment as an existential act . . . Rock n Roll Plays Itself understands how rock music, as a cultural form, survives not just because of the mythical lives of its stars and its own artistic recycling but also because its embedded in the life of the screen. -- Alex Harvey * Los Angeles Review of Books * Rock 'n' Roll Plays Itself is a wonderful, exhaustive history. It presents everyone and everything in the history of rock on film, from the mad (A. J. Weberman, who styles himself a Dylanologist, but whom lesser minds might describe as the man who picked through Bob Dylans rubbish), to the bad (Elvis Presleys movies of the 1960s) to the born to be filmed (both David Bowie and Prince are discussed at some length). -- Emily A. Bernhard Jackson * Times Literary Supplement * From the sublime to the ridiculous, Scanlan climaxes with Metallica's Some Kind of Monster and The Osbournes. Fascinating stuff. * Classic Rock Magazine * Rock n Roll Plays Itself is a huge collection of information on the many connections and feedback loops that music, musicians and movie culture established and refined over the decades, thereby appreciating the massive input (originally) rocknroll provided. * popcultureshelf.com * in Rock n Roll Plays Itself, John Scanlan looks at the history of pop on film, from Rock Around The Clock and Elvis to MTV and YouTube. * Choice Magazine, UK, selected as a Great Summer Read, July 2022 *