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The Beatles on screen : from pop stars to musicians /
The 1960s ushered in a time of creative freedom and idealism reflected in the popular music and films on both sides of the Atlantic. At the forefront of driving that creative change were four mop-topped musicians from Liverpool, The Beatles. While many scholars have examined their role as songwriter...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Theoretical frameworks and literature survey; Chapter summaries; 1 A Hard Day's Night: Beatlemania hits the big screen; Context and musical sequence analysis; "A Hard Day's Night" (opening credits); "I Should Have Known Better"; "If I Fell"; "Can't Buy Me Love"; "And I Love Her"/ "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You"; The final live concert sequence ("Tell Me Why"/"If I Fell"/"I Should Have Known Better"/"She Loves You"); Conclusion; 2 Help! Beatlemania is out of control; "Help!" (opening credits).
- "You're Going to Lose that Girl""You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"; "Ticket to Ride"; "I Need You"; "The Night Before"/ "She's a Woman"; "Another Girl"; Conclusion; 3 Roll up for the Magical Mystery Tour; Producing and promoting Magical Mystery Tour; Perception, performance, liberation-psychedelia's influence on the Beatles; The Beatles' psychedelic promotional films; "Rain" and "Paperback Writer"; "Strawberry Fields Forever"; Magical Mystery Tour as a psychedelic trip; "Magical Mystery Tour"; "The Fool on the Hill" and "Flying"; "I am the Walrus"; "Blue Jay Way" and "Death Cab for Cutie."
- "Your Mother Should Know"Conclusion; 4 From seaside mystery trips to Pepperland: Aboard the Yellow Submarine; King Features and the Beatles cartoon series; Yellow Submarine-film form and style; The narrative/number relationship; "Eleanor Rigby"; "Only a Northern Song"; "Sea of Holes"; "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"; Conclusion; 5 The end of an era, the end of the Beatles-Let It Be; Observational documentary, form, and function in Let It Be; The Beatles as social actors; A fifth Beatle?; George Harrison: The "quiet one" speaks; Ringo Starr: The lovable drummer writes a song.
- Paul McCartney: (Reluctant?) leaderJohn Lennon: The enigma; The viewer as voyeur; The Beatles take a final bow: "Revolution," "Hey Jude," and the rooftop performance; Conclusion; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.