Description: This book offers an eclectic look at how rock 'n' roll and its fans have been represented in B-movies, blockbusters, biopics, documentaries, and experimental films. David Sterritt explores how rock 'n' roll movies kept pace with rapidly changing musical trends, helping to fuel a worldwide revolution in youth culture.
Review Quotes: "The rock 'n' roll movie made its inauspicious debut in 1955 when a second-rate rockabilly record by Bill Haley and the Comets played ironically over the opening credits of the earnest melodrama, Blackboard Jungle. But as David Sterritt thoroughly and engagingly shows us, the movie industry soon produced a kaleidoscopic array of variations on the theme. Rock 'n' roll has dominated flashy fan pics, thoughtful documentaries, avant-garde obscurities, and bizarre animated films, but also monuments from auteurs like Martin Scorsese. They're all here in this highly readable little book."--Krin Gabbard "author of Jammin' at the Margins: Jazz and the American Cinema"