Popular Music and the Moving Image in Eastern Europe
is the first collection to discuss the ways in which popular music has
been used cinematically, from musicals to music videos to documentary
film, in Eastern Europe from 1945 to the present day. It argues that
during the period of state socialism, moving image was an important tool
of promoting music in the respective countries and creating popular
cinema. Yet despite this importance, filmmakers who specialized in
musicals lacked the social prestige of leading 'auteurs' and received
little critical attention. The resulting scholarly prejudice towards pop
culture created a severe shortage of critical studies of the genre.
With
the fall of state socialism - and with it, the need for economically
viable film and media industries - brought about an unprecedented
upsurge of films utilizing popular music, and a greater recognition of
popular cinema as a legitimate object of study. Popular Music and the Moving Image in Eastern Europe fills
the gap and demonstrates why the popular music-cinema interface needs
to be theorized with respect to the political, ideological, and social
forces invested in popular culture.
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