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An impassioned and eclectic survey, Fox’s book on what he calls ‘music films’ not only introduces the canon, but explores its outer limits and limitations.
An impassioned and eclectic survey, Fox’s book on what he calls ‘music films’ not only introduces the canon, but explores its outer limits and limitations.
This comprehensive analysis of music documentaries, tour films and other cinematic representations of popular music is an invaluable contribution to the field of film studies, music studies, media studies and to anyone interested in music on screen.
A good deal of Music Films is as much celebration as survey. Fox presents a thorough overview of key texts like Don't Look Back (1967), The Decline of Western Civilization (1981) and Stop Making Sense (1984), before building an argument that the years since the millennium have truly been the music film’s golden age.
Neil Fox is Associate Professor of Film Practice and Pedagogy at Falmouth University, UK. He leads the Research & Innovation programme, Pedagogy Futures, and convenes the Sound/Image Cinema Lab. He is an award-winning screenwriter whose short films and feature debut Wilderness (2017) have played to festival audiences around the globe. He is the co-founder and host of the leading film podcast The Cinematologists, the official podcast partner of the BFI national film seasons. He is the co-editor of Podcasting: New Aural Cultures and Digital Media (2018).