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Hip Hop on Film: Performance Culture, Urban Space, and Genre Transformation in the 1980s
Kimberley Monteyne
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paperback. A reclamation and interpretation of a once-dismissed aspect of American film history Num Pages: 277 pages, 25|25 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; ASDT; AVGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 426.
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's fascinating efforts to incorporate this nascent urban culture into conventional narrative forms. Such films presented musical conventions against the backdrop of graffiti-splattered trains and abandoned tenements in urban communities of color, setting the stage for radical social and political transformations. Hip hop musicals are also part of the broader history of teen cinema, and ... Read more
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's fascinating efforts to incorporate this nascent urban culture into conventional narrative forms. Such films presented musical conventions against the backdrop of graffiti-splattered trains and abandoned tenements in urban communities of color, setting the stage for radical social and political transformations. Hip hop musicals are also part of the broader history of teen cinema, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi United States
Number of pages
277
Condition
New
Number of Pages
277
Place of Publication
Jackson, United States
ISBN
9781496802620
SKU
V9781496802620
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About Kimberley Monteyne
Kimberley Monteyne, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, is currently teaching at the University of British Columbia and has also taught at New York University and the Chelsea College of Art (UK). Her work has appeared in Youth Culture in Global Cinema.
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