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Gee, how many Bob Dylan films could there be? The obvious ones are Don't Look Back, one of the first and still one of the best rockumentaries; Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid , a Sam Peckinpah oater, of sorts; and Renaldo and Clara, which rivals Frank Zappa's 200 Motels as either an idiosyncratic exercise in inaccessibility or a masterwork of surpassing genius. Each gets its chapter from Lee, who also examines Dylan in visual media generally, noting his cameo roles, videos, and appearances at award shows. Gospel Bob can be pretty inaccessible in any medium, of course, making him a wonderful subject for critical analysis. He's unlikely to say or do anything forthright enough to deflate a critical construct, especially one as friendly as Lee's. In closing, Lee proclaims that Don't Look Back director D. A. Pennebaker's statement that Dylan intends to "make the longest film that's ever been made" is brilliant. Come again? Worth a look, anyway, especially for fans. Mike Tribby
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Using archive research and fresh interviews, C.P. Lee - author of the higly acclaimed Like the Night - traces Dylan's celluloid obsession from his teenage adulation of James Dean through his involvement in groundbreaking documentaries like Don't Look Back and his enigmatic appearance in Peckinpah's Pat Garratt and Billy the Kid before looking in depth at Dylan-produced movies like Renaldo and Clara and Hearts on Fire. Also includes a full analysis of all Dylan's appearances in film and TV.
Gee, how many Bob Dylan films could there be? The obvious ones are Don't Look Back, one of the first and still one of the best rockumentaries; Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid , a Sam Peckinpah oater, of sorts; and Renaldo and Clara, which rivals Frank Zappa's 200 Motels as either an idiosyncratic exercise in inaccessibility or a masterwork of surpassing genius. Each gets its chapter from Lee, who also examines Dylan in visual media generally, noting his cameo roles, videos, and appearances at award shows. Gospel Bob can be pretty inaccessible in any medium, of course, making him a wonderful subject for critical analysis. He's unlikely to say or do anything forthright enough to deflate a critical construct, especially one as friendly as Lee's. In closing, Lee proclaims that Don't Look Back director D. A. Pennebaker's statement that Dylan intends to "make the longest film that's ever been made" is brilliant. Come again? Worth a look, anyway, especially for fans. Mike Tribby
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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Using archive research and fresh interviews, C.P. Lee - author of the higly acclaimed Like the Night - traces Dylan's celluloid obsession from his teenage adulation of James Dean through his involvement in groundbreaking documentaries like Don't Look Back and his enigmatic appearance in Peckinpah's Pat Garratt and Billy the Kid before looking in depth at Dylan-produced movies like Renaldo and Clara and Hearts on Fire. Also includes a full analysis of all Dylan's appearances in film and TV.
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One evening in 1956 the three members of a junior high school band called The Golden Chords came out of the Lybba Cinema in Hibbing, Minnesota. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bob Dylan, Eat The Document, New York, Dont Look Back, Pat Garrett, Hearts of Fire, Rolling Thunder, Howard Alk, Joan Baez, Albert Grossman, Rolling Stone, Hard Rain, Bobby Neuwirth, Bill Graham, Los Angeles, Robbie Robertson, Billy Parker, Sam Peckinpah, Allen Ginsberg, Direct Cinema, High Sheriff's Lady, James Colt, Johnny Cash, Richard Marquand, San Francisco New!
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One evening in 1956 the three members of a junior high school band called The Golden Chords came out of the Lybba Cinema in Hibbing, Minnesota. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bob Dylan, Eat The Document, New York, Dont Look Back, Pat Garrett, Hearts of Fire, Rolling Thunder, Howard Alk, Joan Baez, Albert Grossman, Rolling Stone, Hard Rain, Bobby Neuwirth, Bill Graham, Los Angeles, Robbie Robertson, Billy Parker, Sam Peckinpah, Allen Ginsberg, Direct Cinema, High Sheriff's Lady, James Colt, Johnny Cash, Richard Marquand, San Francisco New!
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- Rolling Thunder Logbook by Sam Shepard on 4 pages
- And a Voice to Sing with: My Story by Joan Baez on page 103, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Authentic Life Of Billy, The Kid by Pat F. Garrett on page 58, page 63, and Back Matter
- Rolling Thunder by J. P. Smith on page 83, page 86, and page 178
- The Life of Billy the Kid by Pat Garrett on page 58, page 63, and Back Matter
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- Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan by Howard Sounes in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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