ISBN:
9780190847579
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
xix, 380 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Whitehead, Kevin Play the way you feel
DDC:
791.436
Schlagwort(e):
Jazz films History and criticism
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Jazz musicians in motion pictures
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Jazz
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Jazzmusiker
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Film
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Geschichte 1927-2016
Kurzfassung:
"This book-both a narrative and a film directory-surveys and analyzes English-language feature films (and a few shorts and TV shows/movies) made between 1927 and 2016 that tell stories about jazz music, its musicians, its history and culture. Play the Way You Feel looks at jazz movies as a narrative tradition with recurring plot points and story tropes, whose roots and development are traced. It also demonstrates how jazz stories cut across diverse genres-biopic, romance, musical, comedy and science fiction, horror, crime and comeback stories, "race movies" and modernized Shakespeare-even as they constitute a genre of their own. The book is also a directory/checklist of such films, 66 of them with extensive credits, plus dozens more shorter/capsule discussions. Where jazz films are based on literary sources, they are examined, and the nature of their adaptation explored: what gets retained, removed, or invented? What do historical films get right and wrong? How does a film's music, and the style of the filmmaking itself, reinforce or undercut the story?--
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Prologue: The "I got rhythm" of jazz movies 1927 & 1946 -- Duke's day & first features 1929-1940 -- Origin stories 1941-1947 -- Bands of brothers 1941-1948 -- Young men with horns : the jazz biopic's golden age 1950-1959 -- The jazz musician (and fan) as character 1951-1961 -- Independents in black and white 1961-1967 -- Spectacles 1972-1984 -- Suffering artists 1984-1989 -- Young lions & historical fictions 1990-2000 -- The jazz musician (and fan) as character 1959-2016 -- Movies within movies & New Orleans comes back 2008-2019 -- Postscript: Print the legend.
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