Hip hop on film : performance culture, urban space, and genre transformation in the 1980s / Kimberley Monteyne.

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"Early hip hop film musicals have either been expunged from cinema history or excoriated in brief passages by critics and other writers. Hip Hop on Film reclaims and reexamines productions such as Breakin' (1984), Beat Street (1984), and Krush Groove (1985) in order to illuminate Hollywood's fascina...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Monteyne, Kimberley
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2013]
Subjects:
Hip-hop.
Hip-hop in motion pictures.
Motion pictures > United States.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.
MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rap & Hip Hop.
PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Popular.
Physical Description:x, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
Performance culture, urban space, and genre transformation in the 1980s.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The case for the hip hop musical
  • The sound of the South Bronx: wild style reinvents the urban musical
  • Hip hoppers and Valley girls: the economic and racial structuring of youth cinema in the 1980s
  • Flashdance: breaking, ballet, and the representation of race andgGender
  • Conclusion.