Rock 'n' film : cinema's dance with popular music / David E. James

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction : rock 'n' film -- Absolute beginnings : Blackboard jungle -- Jukebox musicals -- Dirty stars : Jayne Mansfield and Kenneth Anger -- Rock 'n' roll noir : Elvis before the army -- Sunshine Elvis : the devil in disguise -- Back in the UK : the English Elvises -- The Beatles I : Richard Lester and A hard day's night -- The Beatles II : next morning -- Toward documentary : bringing it all back home -- D.A. Pennebaker : documentary from folk to folk rock and rock -- Utopia and its discontents : from Woodstock to Message of love -- The Rolling Stones : the greatest rock 'n' film band in the world -- Mick Jagger, demon brother -- Rock 'n' film crisis : the Rolling Stones in the United States -- Back to black : soul -- ... and white : country music -- Rock 'n' roll suicide film