US Youth Films and Popular Music

Identity, Genre, and Musical Agency

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by Tim McNelis

Type: Studies
Subject: Countries > United States
Keywords: american cinema, youth, music
Publishing date: 2019
Publisher: Routledge
Collection: Routledge Advances in Film Studies
1st publishing: 2017
Language: English

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Physical desc.

Paperback • 198 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-0-367-87493-3

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Book Presentation:
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

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

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