Play the way you feel : the essential guide to jazz stories on film /

Jazz stories have been entwined with cinema since the inception of jazz film genre in the 1920s, giving us origin tales and biopics, spectacles and low-budget quickies, comedies, musicals, and dramas, and stories of improvisers and composers at work. And the jazz film has seen a resurgence in recent...

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Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Whitehead, Kevin
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
Zusammenfassung:
Jazz stories have been entwined with cinema since the inception of jazz film genre in the 1920s, giving us origin tales and biopics, spectacles and low-budget quickies, comedies, musicals, and dramas, and stories of improvisers and composers at work. And the jazz film has seen a resurgence in recent years-from biopics like Miles Ahead and HBO's Bessie, to dramas Whiplash and La La Land. In Play the Way You Feel, author and jazz critic Kevin Whitehead offers a comprehensive guide to these films and other media from the perspective of the music itself. Spanning 93 years of film history, the book looks closely at movies, cartoons, and a few TV shows that tell jazz stories, from early talkies to modern times, with an eye to narrative conventions and common story points.
Umfang:
1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-084759-X
0-19-094830-2
0-19-084758-1
Schlagworte:
Jazz in motion pictures > United States > History and criticism.
Jazz musicians.
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