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The Beatles on Film: Analysis of Movies, Documentaries, Spoofs and Cartoons
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Abstract This book provides the production history and a contextual interpretation of The Beatles' movies (A Hard Day's Night, Help!, Yellow Submarine, Let It Be) and describes their ability to project the group's image at different stages in their career. It also includes a discussion of all of The Beatles'... view more
This book provides the production history and a contextual interpretation of The Beatles' movies (A Hard Day's Night, Help!, Yellow Submarine, Let It Be) and describes their ability to project the group's image at different stages in their career. It also includes a discussion of all of The Beatles' promotional films and videos, as well as their television cartoon series and the self-produced television special Magical Mystery Tour. Along with The Beatles' feature movies and promos, this analysis also contains documentaries, such as The Compleat Beatles and Anthology, as well as dramatizations of the band's history, such as Backbeat, The Hours and Times, and Two of Us.... view less
Keywords
film; pop culture; pop music; musician; documentary film
Classification
Other Media
Other Fields of Humanities
Free Keywords
Beatles; Cultural Studies
Document language
English
Publication Year
2008
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
211 p.
Series
Film
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839408858
ISBN
978-3-8394-0885-8
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0