The British Pop Music Film

PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Genre, Academia and the British Pop Music Film PART II: THE PRIMITIVE POP MUSIC FILM: COFFEE-BARS, COSH BOYS AND CLIFF 1. Introduction: Evasions and Imitations 2. Coffee Bar Pop Idols: The Tommy Steele Story (1957), The Golden Disc (1958) and Expresso Bongo (1959) 3. Coffee Bar Cosh Boys: Serious Charge (1959) and Beat Girl (1960) 4. Cliff Richard: The Young Ones (1962), Summer Holiday (1963), Wonderful Life (1964) PART III: THE MATURE POP MUSIC FILM: BOMBS, BEATLEMANIA AND BOORMAN 1. Introduction: Rockets and Rehearsals 2. The Pop Music Film as Political Allegory: It's Trad, Dad ! (1962) 3. The Canonical Pop Music Film: A Hard Day's Night (1964) 4. The Colonial Pop Music Film: Help! (1965) 5. The Chekhovian Pop Music Film: Catch Us If You Can (1965) PART IV: THE DECADENT POP MUSIC FILM: POLITICS, PSYCHEDELIA AND PERFORMANCE 1. Introduction: Blow Up and the Backlash 2. The Pop Music Film as Personal Polemic: Privilege (1967) 3. The Pop Music Film as Underground Parable: Yellow Submarine (1968) 4. The Pop Music Film as Political Diptych: One Plus One / Sympathy For the Devil (1968) 5. The Pop Music Film as Finale: Performance (1970) PART V: AFTERLIFE: THE HISTORICAL POP MUSIC FILM 1. The Grit and the Glam: Tommy (1975) and Quadrophenia (1979) 2. The Punk and the Pink: The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle (1980) and Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982) 3. The Postmodern and Plan B: Absolute Beginners (1986) and Spice World (1997) PART VI: CONCLUSION 1. Music Matters