Rock on Film: The Movies That Rocked the Big Screen (Turner Classic Movies)

Rock on Film - The Ultimate Guide to the Electric Marriage of Rock & Roll and Cinema! 🎬🎵 Experience the electrifying, entertaining, and often daring marriage of rock & roll and cinema like never before with "Rock on Film" - the ultimate guide for film buffs and music lovers alike! 🔥🎥 Discover how the use of Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock" in 1955's Blackboard Jungle kicked off a cinematic and cultural revolution, and how Elvis Presley and teensploitation films of the '50s and '60s set the stage for an almost unbelievably broad genre of films made by increasingly ambitious musicians and filmmakers across the past seven decades.

🎤🎬 From crowd-pleasers to art-house favorites, underground gems to undisputed classics, "Rock on Film" surveys an almost seventy-year canon of a genre like no other - complete with an insightful round-up of fifty must-see rock films and original interviews with Cameron Crowe, Jim Jarmusch, Penelope Spheeris, Taylor Hackford, and John Waters! 🎥👨‍💼 Illustrated throughout by more than 150 full-color and black-and-white images, "Rock on Film" brings the history of music in the movies to vivid life - don't miss out on this unforgettable journey through the marriage of rock & roll and cinema! 🎥🔥