US Youth Films and Popular Music

Identity, Genre, and Musical Agency

Tim McNelis (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

186 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-87493-3 (ISBN)

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This book brings theory from popular music studies to an examination of identity and agency in youth films while building on, and complementing, film studies literature concerned with genre, identity, and representation. McNelis includes case studies of Hollywood and independent US youth films that have had commercial and/or critical success to illustrate how films draw on specific discourses surrounding popular music genres to convey ideas about gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and other aspects of identity. He develops the concept of ‘musical agency’, a term he uses to discuss the relationship between film music and character agency, also examining the music characters listen to and discuss, as well as musical performances by the characters themselves

Tim McNelis is University Teacher in the Communication and Media Department at the University of Liverpool, UK

Introduction: Youth Films, Identity, and Musical Agency

Part I: She’s a Rebel?: Girls, Guitars, and Agency

Introduction

1. The Girl Can’t Have It: Restricted Musical Agency in 10 Things I Hate About You and Love Don’t Cost a Thing

2. Queer Agency and Reappropriation of the "Technophallus" in All Over Me

3. Silent Punk and Audible Folk: Musical Sleight-of-Hand in Juno

Part II: Listening to the Other: Cultural Borrowing and Critical Reflection

Introduction

4. Consumption, Authenticity, and Identity Experimentation in Ghost World

5. "I didn’t move to Bosnia": Critical Cultural Immersion in Save the Last Dance

6. Cheerleaders, Bullies, and Nerds: Intersections of White Stereotypes and Black Music in Bring it On, Mean Creek, and Napoleon Dynamite

Part III: Unheard Ethnicities: Musical Construction of Ethnic Identity and Agency

Introduction

7. ‘Old World’ Ethnicity, Hybrid Identity, and ‘New World’ Agency in Real Women Have Curves

8. "Neighbourhood is sure changing, isn’t it?": Evolving Traditions and Complex Identities in Quinceañera

9. Reimagining the All-American Teenager: Inaudible Ethnicity and Agency from the Margins in Better Luck Tomorrow

Conclusion: The Continuing Relevance of Film Music to Identity and Agency

Erscheinungsdatum	24.12.2019
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Advances in Film Studies
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-367-87493-8 / 0367874938
ISBN-13	978-0-367-87493-3 / 9780367874933
Zustand	Neuware