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The end of an era, the end of the Beatles—Let It Be

Stephanie Fremaux

Stephanie Fremaux is Lecturer in the School of Media at Birmingham City University, UK. She leads the Media Section’s Erasmus and Internationalization agendas, including leading master classes at a partner university in Kazakhstan. Her research interests are primarily focused around interdisciplinary film and popular music including studying the relationships between popular music on film and modes of performance; popular music tourism; fandom and the use of digital platforms; and Beatles scholarly research. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Beatles on Screen : From Pop Stars to Musicians

Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

Book chapter

...The Beatles spent the majority of the summer and early autumn of 1968 working in the studio on what they insisted should be a double album, The Beatles, despite George Martin’s advice that it would make a stronger record if it was cut down...

Conclusion

Stephanie Fremaux

Stephanie Fremaux is Lecturer in the School of Media at Birmingham City University, UK. She leads the Media Section’s Erasmus and Internationalization agendas, including leading master classes at a partner university in Kazakhstan. Her research interests are primarily focused around interdisciplinary film and popular music including studying the relationships between popular music on film and modes of performance; popular music tourism; fandom and the use of digital platforms; and Beatles scholarly research. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Beatles on Screen : From Pop Stars to Musicians

Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

Book chapter

...The journey the Beatles take between their first film and their last depicts the turbulence, challenges, and new possibilities of individuality that come from questioning and undermining traditional ways of thinking about image. And in case...

A Hard Day’s Night

Stephanie Fremaux

Stephanie Fremaux is Lecturer in the School of Media at Birmingham City University, UK. She leads the Media Section’s Erasmus and Internationalization agendas, including leading master classes at a partner university in Kazakhstan. Her research interests are primarily focused around interdisciplinary film and popular music including studying the relationships between popular music on film and modes of performance; popular music tourism; fandom and the use of digital platforms; and Beatles scholarly research. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Beatles on Screen : From Pop Stars to Musicians

Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

Book chapter

...Writing for the Village Voice on August 27, 1964, film critic Andrew Sarris made a bold comparison between a faddish pop musical and one of the great Hollywood classics by calling A Hard Day’s Night “the Citizen Kane of jukebox musicals...

From seaside mystery trips to Pepperland

Stephanie Fremaux

Stephanie Fremaux is Lecturer in the School of Media at Birmingham City University, UK. She leads the Media Section’s Erasmus and Internationalization agendas, including leading master classes at a partner university in Kazakhstan. Her research interests are primarily focused around interdisciplinary film and popular music including studying the relationships between popular music on film and modes of performance; popular music tourism; fandom and the use of digital platforms; and Beatles scholarly research. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Beatles on Screen : From Pop Stars to Musicians

Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

Book chapter

...Yellow Submarine comes the closest of the Beatles’ films to fit the examples of Dyer’s (2002) work on the musical in that it most closely represents entertainment as pure entertainment and, at first glance, its narrative form...

Help! Beatlemania is out of control

Stephanie Fremaux

Stephanie Fremaux is Lecturer in the School of Media at Birmingham City University, UK. She leads the Media Section’s Erasmus and Internationalization agendas, including leading master classes at a partner university in Kazakhstan. Her research interests are primarily focused around interdisciplinary film and popular music including studying the relationships between popular music on film and modes of performance; popular music tourism; fandom and the use of digital platforms; and Beatles scholarly research. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Beatles on Screen : From Pop Stars to Musicians

Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

Book chapter

...I have argued that one of the unusual aspects of A Hard Day’s Night was the duality of the musical sequences in depicting the role of the audience. On one level, the use of the live performance mode encouraged the audience as an integral...

Introduction

Stephanie Fremaux

Stephanie Fremaux is Lecturer in the School of Media at Birmingham City University, UK. She leads the Media Section’s Erasmus and Internationalization agendas, including leading master classes at a partner university in Kazakhstan. Her research interests are primarily focused around interdisciplinary film and popular music including studying the relationships between popular music on film and modes of performance; popular music tourism; fandom and the use of digital platforms; and Beatles scholarly research. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Beatles on Screen : From Pop Stars to Musicians

Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

Book chapter

...When asked about what it was like to see the Beatles for the first time on television, American actress and comedienne Whoopi Goldberg replied, “They were, you know, fucking amazing. The Beatles gave me this idea that everyone was welcome...

Roll up for the Magical Mystery Tour

Stephanie Fremaux

Stephanie Fremaux is Lecturer in the School of Media at Birmingham City University, UK. She leads the Media Section’s Erasmus and Internationalization agendas, including leading master classes at a partner university in Kazakhstan. Her research interests are primarily focused around interdisciplinary film and popular music including studying the relationships between popular music on film and modes of performance; popular music tourism; fandom and the use of digital platforms; and Beatles scholarly research. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Beatles on Screen : From Pop Stars to Musicians

Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

Book chapter

...The Beatles’ decision to quit touring in 1966 became an important turning point in the band’s direction and outlook. Performing live has always been a key marketing strategy and a direct way to connect with the fan base. Bands use touring...

A Changing Audience

James Russell

James Russell is Principal Lecturer in Film Studies at De Montfort University, UK. His last book was The Historical Epic and Contemporary Hollywood (Bloomsbury, 2007). His short writing has appeared in Cinema Journal, the Journal of American Studies, the Guardian and numerous edited collections. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Jim Whalley

Jim Whalley is an independent scholar based in the UK. He writes on American cinema history, and is the author of Saturday Night Live, Hollywood Comedy and American Culture (2010). His short writing has also appeared in The New Review of Film and Television Studies. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Hollywood and the Baby Boom : A Social History

Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

Book chapter

...The 1960s were a time of crisis and renewal for Hollywood, marked by the curtailment of earlier production strategies and a more concerted effort to attract baby boom audiences. While the Walt Disney Company continued to pursue child...