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The rock star as contemporary cowboy: film mythology and ideologyBarry, Thomas J January 1900 (has links)
Doctor of Philosophy / Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work / Patrick Akard / This study examines the mythology of rock and roll stars in film. To accomplish this the narrative structures and ideological components of films about rock stars were identified and analyzed. There were two reasons for choosing this film genre. First, these films are specifically produced for a youth-oriented audience, an age demographic making the transition to adulthood. Because of this, these films provide commentary about social institutions and cultural values about finding a place in a market-based economy that is not as clearly transparent in other genres. Second, these films deal with society across historical time periods, starting with the inception of rock and roll in the 1950s through the present time. Because they cross multiple decades it is possible to analyze how the narrative structure and content of the films change across time and how these changes reflect changes in social conditions. The narrative structure of these films were identified and analyzed following the methodology laid out by Will Wright in Sixguns and Society (1975). The five narrative structures that were identified included, in chronological order, the reconciliation plot, the personal revival plot, the personal revival plot tragedy variation, the self-destruction plot, and the rejection plot. The journey the heroes in each plot take, along with the obstacles they face and how they find their place in society, coincide with historically situated cultural values and social conditions. Film content was analyzed through assessing how binary oppositions were resolved and the core themes represented. Both components, the narrative structures and binary oppositions, changed in ways reflective of the historical context in which the films were produced and reinforced particular ideological positions about cultural values, the youth, and the marketplace. While the hero's journey took different direction within each of the identified plots, they all contained a common thread – the rock star always finds a place in society by conforming to structural conditions instead of working to alter them.
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«From Stardust to Stones to Bad Seed» : vers une déconstruction du rock doc : le corps de la rock star au cœur de l'œuvre audiovisuelle hybrideGrozdanova, Marina Roumenova 04 1900 (has links)
Mémoire complété dans le cadre de la maîtrise internationale "International Master in Audiovisual and Cinema Studies" suivie à l'Université de Montréal, l'Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris 3) et l'Université Paris-Nanterre (Paris-X). / Selon le musicologue Richard Leppert, la contradiction sémiotique existant entre la musique en tant qu’expérience vécue corporelle et la musique en tant que phénomène sonore et acoustique trouve une résolution par le biais de la vision humaine. Partant de cette thèse, notre recherche se propose d’étudier trois documentaires qui, portant sur la musique rock et s’attachant à mettre en images le corps de la rock star, cherchent à combler notre besoin de voir et d’écouter le corps du musicien dans sa pratique de création musicale ou durant sa performance spectaculaire. Les trois documentaires examinés – Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars : The Motion Picture, One + One et 20,000 Days on Earth – mettent à l’épreuve la fabrication musicale-sonore et subjective de l’identité de la rock star ; et, par cela, ils déconstruisent la tradition générique du rockumentary. Concentrés sur le foyer catalyseur qu’est le corps sonore de la star, ces films se constituent comme des oeuvres audiovisuelles hybrides où le son et l’image participent dans l’acte de création filmique et de la création et performance musicale. / According to the musicologist Richard Leppert, the semiotic contradiction between music as a bodily experience and music as an acoustic phenomenon finds resolution through human vision. Based on this claim, our research aims to study three documentaries that focus on rock music and the representation of the body of the rock star, which seek to fill our need to see and to listen to the body of the musician during the practice of musical creation or performance. The three documentaries examined – Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: The Motion Picture, One + One and 20,000 Days on Earth – problematize the musical, sonorous and subjective fabrication of the rock star’s identity ; and in doing so, they deconstruct the generic tradition of the rockumentary. Concentrating on the catalytic force of the rock star’s sounding body, these films thus constitute hybrid audiovisual works in which sound and image partake in both the act of filmmaking and musical performance.
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