By Leonard Maltin
Approximately 16,000 ENTRIES together with three hundred+ NEW ENTRIES AND greater than 13,000 DVD LISTINGS
Summer blockbusters and autonomous sleepers; masterworks of Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, and Martin Scorsese; the undying comedy of the Marx Brothers and Buster Keaton; lively classics from Walt Disney and Pixar; the best overseas movies ever made. This 2015 variation covers the trendy period, from 1965 to the current, whereas together with the entire nice older movies you can’t manage to pay for to miss—and these you can—from box-office smashes to cult classics to forgotten gemstones to forgettable bombs, indexed alphabetically, and whole with all of the crucial info you may ask for.
NEW:
• approximately 16,000 pill motion picture reports, with three hundred+ new entries
• greater than 25,000 DVD and video listings
• up to date record of mail-order and on-line assets for purchasing and renting DVDs and videos
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• authentic movie code rankings from G to NC-17
• previous and new theatrical and video releases rated **** to BOMB
• unique operating times—an important advisor for recording and for locating which videos were edited
• studies of little-known sleepers, overseas movies, rarities, and classics
• Leonard’s own record of Must-See Movies
• Date of unlock, operating time, director, stars, MPAA rankings, colour or black and white
• Concise precis, pill evaluate, and four-star-to-BOMB score system
• specified details on movies shot in widescreen format
• Symbols for DVDs, movies, and laserdiscs
• thoroughly up to date index of major actors
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Zu beobachten waren hektische Tanzgesten, die sich bestiindig wiederholten. Hebdige beschreibt einen solchen Tanz, den Pogo: "Die Pogo-Tanzer machten die immer gleichen, abgehackten Bewegungen (Luftspriinge, Arme in die Seiten geklemmt, einen imaginiiren Ball kopfend) und wiederholten sie im Einklang mit den streng mechanischen Rhythmen der Musik" (1983, S. 99). Provokation stellte das 'Lebenselexier' des Punk dar. Eine Punkband erlangte nur dann Aufmerksamkeit in den Medien, wenn sie zu schockieren vermochte.
Seit Ende der siebziger Jahre vollzieht sich zudem eine partielle Umkehrung des rockmusikalischen Weltbildes: Die faschistisch orientierte 'National Front' in Gro~britanien funktionalisierte einige Punkbands fUr ihre politische Werbung; zudem sprach David Bowie yom "Superstar Adolf Hitler". Zwar kann man die eben bezeichneten Beispiele nicht als Trend, aber immerbin als ein wichtiges Indiz dafur werten, d~ die Au~rungen von Rockstars politische Bedeutung besitzen. Denn ungeachtet der Frage, ob es sich bei David Bowie lediglich blo~ urn eine werbetriichtige Au~rung handelt, zeigt doch die anschlie~nde Diskussion in vielen Jugendzeitschriften auf, d~ sich Rockmusik zu einem bedeutenden gesellschaftlichen Faktor entfaltet hat, da es ihr immer wieder gelingt, auf affektive und kognitive Einstellungen der Jugendlichen Einflu~ auszuiiben.
Infolgedessen vermittelt eine Freizeitsubkultur zwar Verhaltenssicherheit und eine gewisse Orientierung, keineswegs aber werden die Widerspriiche, die aus der Klassenzugehorigkeit resultieren, in diesem Rahmen zufriedenstellend im Sinne einer LOsung bearbeitet. Nach lindners Beschreibung iibemehmen Subkulturen ihre Elemente zur Stilbildung aus den Symbolsystemen der dominanten Kultur. Integrativer Bestandteil dieser Symbolsysteme ist stets auch Rockmusik, die sich in Enklaven biirgerlicher Kultur entwickelt.