A Hard Day's Night: Turner Classic Movies British Film Guide

by Stephen Glynn

Overview

Dubbed by Andrew Sarris ""the Citizen Kane of pop musicals,"" recently given a high-profile release on a two-disc DVD, A Hard Day's Night, directed by Richard Lester, is viewed by Stephen Glynn as that rare event--a cheap exploitation movie that has entered the cultural canon. Following the Fab Four's adventures in New York the film established enduring individual personalities for the four Beatles, invented the pop music video and made us all ""buy into"" the Beatles. This radical Guide, full of detail and insight, explores its making, its music, fandom, Pop Art style, reception and influence and how the Beatles went to America to make a revolutionary movie.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781850435877
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/12/2004
Series:	British Film Guides
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	803,918
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.23(d)

About the Author

Stephen Glynn is Lecturer in Film at the Open University.

Table of Contents

Film Credits
• Context
• Why Dont We Do The Show Right Here!
• An Early Clue to the New Direction
• Just Good Friends
• A Young Man's Medium
• Analysis
• I'm a Mocker
• Fraternising with Prisoners
• ...Into Style
• Group Identity
• Back-stage Politics
• Reception and Audience
• Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
• To Get You Money. To Buy You Things
• Looming Large in Their Legend
• Sources