Balancing rocks capacity for utopian popular cultural empowerment with its usefulness for the capitalist media industries rock n film explores how the musics contradictory potentials were reproduced in various kinds of cinema including major studio productions minor studios exploitation projects independent documentaries and the avant . Rock n film cinemas dance with popular music james david e 9780190842017 books amazonca. Rock n film presents a cultural history of films about us and british rock music during the period when biracial popular music was fundamental to progressive social movements on both sides of the atlantic. In his book rock n film cinemas dance with popular music david e james explores how rocks capacity for cultural empowerment and its usefulness as a driver of commerce and profit were reproduced in various kinds of cinema independent documentaries and concert films including monterey pop and gimme shelter narrative films such as king creole and privilege and the experimental