Play the way you feel : the essential guide to jazz stories on film / Kevin Whitehead.
| Author/creator |
Whitehead, Kevin |
| Other author/creator | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020] |
| Description | xix, 380 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online Music |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | Prologue: The "I got rhythm" of jazz movies 1927 & 1946 -- Duke's day & first features 1929-1940 -- Origin stories 1941-1947 -- Bands of brothers 1941-1948 -- Young men with horns : the jazz biopic's golden age 1950-1959 -- The jazz musician (and fan) as character 1951-1961 -- Independents in black and white 1961-1967 -- Spectacles 1972-1984 -- Suffering artists 1984-1989 -- Young lions & historical fictions 1990-2000 -- The jazz musician (and fan) as character 1959-2016 -- Movies within movies and New Orleans comes back 2008-2019 -- Postscript: Print the legend. |
| Abstract | "This book-both a narrative and a film directory-surveys and analyzes English-language feature films (and a few shorts and TV shows/movies) made between 1927 and 2016 that tell stories about jazz music, its musicians, its history and culture. Play the Way You Feel looks at jazz movies as a narrative tradition with recurring plot points and story tropes, whose roots and development are traced. It also demonstrates how jazz stories cut across diverse genres-biopic, romance, musical, comedy and science fiction, horror, crime and comeback stories, "race movies" and modernized Shakespeare-even as they constitute a genre of their own. The book is also a directory/checklist of such films, 66 of them with extensive credits, plus dozens more shorter/capsule discussions. Where jazz films are based on literary sources, they are examined, and the nature of their adaptation explored: what gets retained, removed, or invented? What do historical films get right and wrong? How does a film's music, and the style of the filmmaking itself, reinforce or undercut the story?-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019036474 |
| ISBN | 9780190847579 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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