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By David Sterritt

Rock ‘n’ Roll Movies offers an eclectic examine the numerous manifestations of rock in movies, from teen-oriented B-movies to Hollywood blockbusters to avant-garde meditations to reverent biopics to lively shorts to functionality documentaries. Acclaimed movie critic David Sterritt considers the various ways in which filmmakers have looked rock ‘n’ roll, a few cynically making the most of its attractiveness and others responding to the song as honest enthusiasts, a few depicting rock as risk free enjoyable and others representing it as an open problem to mainstream norms. 

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