Hip hop on film : performance culture, urban space, and genre transformation in the 1980s /

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"Early hip hop film musicals have either been expunged from cinema history or excoriated in brief passages by critics and other writers. Hip Hop on Film reclaims and reexamines productions such as Breakin' (1984), Beat Street (1984), and Krush Groove (1985) in order to illuminate Hollywood...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Monteyne, Kimberley
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2013]
Subjects:
Hip-hop in motion pictures.
Motion pictures > United States.
Hip-hop au cinéma.
Cinéma > États-Unis.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Rap & Hip Hop.
PERFORMING ARTS > Dance > Popular.
Motion pictures.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Case for the Hip Hop Musical
  • The Sound of the South Bronx: Wild Style Reinvents the Urban Musical
  • Hip Hoppers and Valley Girls: The Economic and Racial Structuring of Youth Cinema in the 1980s
  • Flashdance: Breaking, Ballet, and the Representation of Race and Gender
  • Conclusion.

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