The same old songs in Reagan-era teen film

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dc.contributor.authorDwyer, Michael D.en
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-10T15:21:24Z
dc.date.available2014-03-10T15:21:24Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractThis article examines the recontextualization of 1950s rock in the form of “Oldies” in teen films of the 1970s and 1980s. Specifically, the article highlights the peculiar phenomenon of scenes featuring teenagers lip-synching to oldies songs in films like Risky Business (1983), Pretty in Pink (1986), Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), and Adventures in Babysitting (1987).In these scenes, like in the cover versions of rhythm and blues records popularized by white artists in the fifties, white teens embody black cultural forms, “covering” over the racial and sexual politics that characterized rock and roll's emergence. The transformation of rock 'n' roll from “race music” to the safe alternative for white bourgeois males in the face of new wave, punk, disco and hip hop, reflected in the establishment of oldies radio formats and revival tours, was aided and abetted by oldies soundtracks to Hollywood filmen
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationDwyer, M. D. (2012) 'The same old songs in Reagan-era teen film', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 3 (Summer 2012). https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.3.01en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.3.01
dc.identifier.endpage18en
dc.identifier.issn2009-4078en
dc.identifier.issued3en
dc.identifier.journalabbrevAlphaville
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage5en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/1447
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttp://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue%203/HTML/ArticleDwyer.htmlen
dc.rights© 2012, the Author(s)en
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ie/en
dc.subjectFilm soundtracksen
dc.subject1970s and 80s teen filmsen
dc.subjectNostalgia versus modern youthen
dc.titleThe same old songs in Reagan-era teen filmen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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