Erstellt: 23. Oktober 2015

Volume 4 in der "The Official Collector´s Edition: Elvis" erscheint dieser Tage und beinhaltet auf 100 Seiten die Story "His Untold Sacrifice - Exclusive Photos, Keepsakes And Letters Home From Sgt. Presley´s Service To Our Country".

Quelle: ElvisDayBayDay.Com

Erstellt: 20. Oktober 2015

ISBN: 0199387591Am 01.01.2016 veröffentlicht "Oxford University Press" das 472 Seiten starke und von David E. James geschriebene Buch "Rock 'n' Film: Cinema's Dance With Popular Music".

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"Rock 'N' Film presents a cultural history of films about US and British rock music during the period when biracial popular music was fundamental to progressive social movements on both sides of the Atlantic. Considering the music's capacity for utopian popular cultural empowerment and its usefulness for the capitalist media industries, Rock 'N' Film explores how its contradictory potentials were reproduced in various kinds of cinema, including major studio productions, minor studios' exploitation projects, independent documentaries, and avant-garde works.

These include Rock Around the Clock (Fred F. Sears, 1956) and other 1950s jukebox musicals; Elvis's King Creole (Michael Curtiz, 1958) and other important films he made before being drafted as well as the formulaic musical comedies in which Hollywood abused his genius in the 1960s; early documentaries such as The T.A.M.I. Show (Steve Binder, 1964) that presented James Brown and the Rolling Stones as core of a black-white, US-UK cultural commonality; A Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester, 1964) that precipitated the British Invasion, Dont Look Back (1967), Monterey Pop (1968), and other Direct Cinema documentaries about the music of the counterculture by D. A. Pennebaker; Woodstock (1970); avant-garde documentaries about the Rolling Stones by Jean-Luc Godard, Kenneth Anger, Robert Frank, and others.

After the turn of the decade, notably Gimme Shelter (1970) in which Charlotte Zwerin edited David and Albert Maysles's footage of the Altamont free concert so as to portray the Stone's complicity in the Hells Angels' murder of a young man, the 60s' utopian biracial music--and films about it--reverted to separate black and white traditions based respectively on soul and country. These produced Blaxploitation and Lady Sings the Blues (Sidney J. Furie, 1972) on the one hand, and bigoted representations of the Southern culture in Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975) on the other.

Both these last two films ended with the deaths of their stars, and it seemed that rock 'n' roll had died or even, as David Bowie proclaimed, that it had committed suicide. But in another documentary about Bowie's concert, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1973), D.A. Pennebaker triumphantly re-affirmed the community of musicians and fans in glam rock. In analyzing this history, David James adapts the methodology of histories of the classic musical to rock 'n' roll to show how the rock 'n' roll film both displaced and recreated the film musical."

Quelle: OUP.Com

Erstellt: 10. Oktober 2015

Die neue Ausgabe des "Elvis Files Magazine" ist gedruckt bzw. zur Auslieferung bereit und hat u. a. folgende Themen:

- Elvis: The Man In The Blue Suede Shoes
- Led Zeppelin Meet Elvis Presley
- Opening Night 10.08.1970
u. v. m.

Quelle: ElvisFiles.No

Erstellt: 06. Oktober 2015

Nr.: 91

"The Elvis Mag" ist derzeit in der Produktion und wird u. a. folgende Themen beinhalten:

- Tom Jones Remembers The King
- Interview: Red West
- Bobby Wood (Teil 2)
u. v. m.

Quelle: EssentialElvis.Com

Erstellt: 06. Oktober 2015

Wie ElvisMatters.Com berichtet, erscheint im Oktober 2015 die belgische Ausgabe des Buches "Elvis And Ginger" von Elvis´ ehemaliger Freundin Ginger Alden.

Quelle: ElvisMatters.Com

Erstellt: 01. Oktober 2015

Das "Vintage Rock"-Magazin veröffentlicht ein "Elvis Special" im Rahmen seiner "Collectores Edition". Der Inhalt umfasst auf 132 Seiten u. a. die Themen "Up In Lights - Elvis At The Movies", "Tupelo To Graceland" und "His Musical Roots, His Style, His Records ... & The Women In His Life".

Quelle: VintageRockMag.Com