This themed issue of Screening the Past focuses on what has become an increasingly significant area of interdisciplinary academic inquiry, the relation between popular music and film. Bringing together essays by scholars…
Even as a folk singer, Bob Dylan moved too fast, learned too quickly, made the old new too easily; to many he was always suspect. (Greil Marcus) [1] What happened, [in…
Midway through The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, at an underground gig in 1970s London, the central protagonist is invited to perform a song that is described by the MC as one of…
When one opens the window, it is natural that some flies will come inside. (Deng Xiao-ping) Flies are not lovely creatures. Their connotations in our language are negative: multiple-eyed, dirty,…
"Blaxploitation" was a brief cycle of action films made specifically for black audiences in both the mainstream and independent sectors of the U.S. film industry during the early 1970s. Offering…
As with most young fields, there are many more ways to study film music than there are film music scholars. My own particular interest has always been in the processes…
I did twenty-nine pictures like that. (Elvis, curling his lip during the 1968 “comeback special.”) Reporter: What do you think of the comment that you’re nothing but a bunch of…
Rowan Woods' 1997 film The Boys was released at a time when Australian cinema had just reached the end of its commercially viable, but at times rather shallow and gimmicky "quirky" phase,…
Since cinema's inception, the choreographed fight sequence has endured as a site of spectacular display, evolving from Douglas Fairbanks' athletic fight sequences to the stylised showdown between Neo and Mr.…
A dumpy, middle-aged man sits before a class of third-graders at one of the most prestigious private schools in the state of Texas. The man, an aspiring rock star named…
"Once upon a time there was a country, and I lived there. When people ask me how it was I say it was the best time of my life, because…
What I thought would be called Xanadu is called the World Wide Web and works differently, but has the same penetration (Nelson, 1999, interview). It was a vision in a…