{"product_id":"9781032587950-rock-around-the-clock","title":"Rock around the Clock","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExploitation, Rock 'n' roll and the Origins of Youth Culture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eExamining one of the earliest films made specifically for young audiences in US cinema, \u003ci\u003eRock around the Clock \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the exploitation production company that made the film and the ways it represented young people, especially in terms of their association with rock ‘n’ roll music and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eExamining one of the earliest films made specifically for young audiences in US cinema, \u003ci\u003eRock around the Clock \u003c\/i\u003e(1956), this book explores the exploitation production company that made the film and the ways it represented young people, especially in terms of their association with rock ’n’ roll music and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProviding new avenues of approaching the film, the book looks at how \u003ci\u003eRock around the Clock \u003c\/i\u003ehas attracted significant scholarly attention, despite its origins as a low-budget production made by master exploitation filmmaker Sam Katzman. It challenges accounts that see the film’s young people as juvenile delinquents, using instead the label ‘cultural rebels’ as a signifier of youth’s ability to resurrect a moribund music industry and rejuvenate a stale youth culture. This book also questions the nature of the label ‘exploitation’ as applied to the film by examining Columbia Pictures’ role as a resource provider for Katzman’s film, comparing \u003ci\u003eRock around the Clock\u003c\/i\u003e to contemporaneous films with a youth focus that were produced in different industrial contexts and investigating its relationship to adaptation by asking whether the film is an example of a ‘postliterary’ adaptation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRich on archival research and industrial and textual analysis, \u003ci\u003eRock around the Clock\u003c\/i\u003e will interest both film studies and youth cultures scholars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56434691473782,"sku":"9781032587950","price":24.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_36640469.jpg?v=1760608671","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781032587950-rock-around-the-clock","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}