Mapping the Rockumentary

Images of Sound and Fury

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Edited by Gunnar Iversen and Scott MacKenzie

Type: Studies
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Keywords: documentary, music
Publishing date: 2021
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Collection: Traditions in World Cinema
Language: English

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Hardcover • 384 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4744-7802-1

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Book Presentation:
Establishes the importance of the rockumentary in documentary studies and in popular music studies
• Transforms the study of rockumentaries, documentary studies and popular music studies
• Provides in-depth discussions of different sub-genres and forms
• Case studies include Long Strange Trip, Truth or Dare, Some Kind of Monster, Shut Up and Sing and I'm Not There

Mapping the Rockumentary: Images of Sound and Fury is the first anthology to explore the rockumentary as a central component of both the documentary and world cinema. The book includes case studies of bands and performers such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, The Clash, Madonna and Metallica and performers from Asia, Europe and the Americas, making the case for rockumentaries as part of an established and ever-evolving cinematic tradition. With an international and transdisciplinary approach, and addressing rocumentaries in film, television and on the internet, the book explores the form’s rich history from the 1950s to the present day – and beyond.

About the authors:
Professor Gunnar Iversen is Professor of Film Studies in the School of Art and Culture at Carleton University.
Scott MacKenzie is Professor of Film and Media, Queen’s University. His books include: Cinema and Nation (2000); Purity and Provocation: Dogma 95 (2003); Screening Québec (2004); The Perils of Pedagogy: The Works of John Greyson (2013); Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures (2014); Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic (2015); Arctic Environmental Modernities (2017); Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos (2019); and Process Cinema: Handmade Film in the Digital Age (2019).

Press Reviews:
This book is a milestone in the study of rockumentary as a genre and the way it reflects history, gender and politics. It takes us through the almost uncharted land of this important genre: from early forms of mediated music, to the breakthrough in the 1960s and into the digital era. It is a rich and illuminating analysis of rockumentary and its cultural context.– Ib Bondebjerg, professor emeritus, University of Copenhagen

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