Performance Culture, Urban Space, and Genre Transformation in the 1980s
by
Kimberly Monteyne
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Early hip hop film musicals have either been expunged from cinema history or excoriated in brief passages by critics and other writers. Hip Hop on Film reclaims and reexamines productions such as Breakin' (1984), Beat Street (1984), and Krush Groove (1985) in order to illuminate Hollywood's fascinating...