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Record Nr.

UNISA996308822703316

Autore

Reiter Roland

Titolo

The Beatles on film : analysis of movies, documentaries, spoofs and cartoons / / Roland Reiter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2008

Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript, , [2008]

©2008

ISBN

3-8394-0885-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214)

Collana

Film

Classificazione

AP 50300

Disciplina

782.42166092/2

Soggetti

Rock groups - England - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [210]-210) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1  Contents    5  Introduction    7  Beatles History - Part One: 1956-1964    11  The Beatles on Film - Part One: 1964-1965    39  Beatles History - Part Two: 1964-1966. A Contextual Interpretation of The Beatles' Image Change in 1966    87  The Beatles on Film - Part Two: 1965-1970    93  Beatles History - Part Three: 1970-2008    137  Screening the Past: Film and History    145  Movies about The Beatles    151  Documentaries about The Beatles    181  Spoofs    191  Conclusion: Image, Myth, History, and The Beatles    195  Works Cited    203  The Author/Acknowledgments    211

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides the production history and a contextual interpretation of The Beatles' movies (A Hard Day's Night, Help!, Yellow Submarine, Let It Be) and describes their ability to project the group's image at different stages in their career. It also includes a discussion of all of The Beatles' promotional films and videos, as well as their television cartoon series and the self-produced television special Magical Mystery Tour. Along with The Beatles' feature movies and promos, this analysis also contains documentaries, such as The Compleat Beatles and Anthology, as well as dramatizations of the band's history, such as Backbeat, The Hours and Times, and Two of Us.

»Interessanter [...] Ansatz, das Image, das die Beatles als Quartett und Einzelpersonen mit Hilfe von Aussehen und Verhalten in ihren Filmen verkörperten, in den Vordergrund zu stellen und damit ihre Wirkung



auf die Gesellschaft der 1960er-Jahre zu erklären. Hier bietet sich für den Leser die Möglichkeit, sich näher mit den Hintergründen der Filme zu beschäftigen und die Gruppe einmal von der wissenschaftlichen Seite aus zu sehen.«  Bernhard Eglmeier, www.lehrerbibliothek.de, 11.09.2008