King Creole
The Disputed Territories of 1950s American Youth Culture (livre en anglais)
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The author argues that King Creole's release during the death throes of rock and roll in America helps to position it as an outlier among youth films of the time in three distinct ways. First, the author demonstrates how the post-rock and roll release of the film allowed for a better harnessing of the star's 'Elvisness.' Second, the author conducts an extensive examination of the film's production records, which show how the film's portrait of youth alienation and delinquency pre-dated America's big screen fixation on these topics, making the film not wholly bound by concurrent youth conventions. Third, the author challenges the dominant reading of the film as being about intergenerational conflict and asserts that it is about shared grief. This nuanced approach distinguishes King Creole from other 1950s youth-oriented films and explains its enduring critical acclaim despite commercial underperformance.
Rich on archival research and textual analysis King Creole: The Disputed Territories of 1950s American Youth Culture will interest both film studies scholars and students. Beyond film studies, this interdisciplinary text is valuable for scholars and students of popular music, American pop culture, celebrity studies, and social history.
À propos de l'auteur :
Anthony Thomas McKenna is Senior Lecturer in Film at Liverpool John Moores University. He is the author of Showman of the Screen: Joseph E. Levine and His Revolutions in Film Promotion and co-author (with Andrew Spicer) of The Man Who Got Carter: Michael Klinger, Independent Production and the British Film Industry, 1960–1980. His other work has appeared in a variety of scholarly journals and edited collections.
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