This Is Spinal Tap: Music on Film Series

by John Kenneth Muir

Overview

In 1984, four comedians – Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Rob Reiner, and Harry Shearer – unleashed This Is Spinal Tap, the world's first “mock-rockumentary” and a joke that has lasted into the 21st century and inspired a generation of imitations. Now, award-winning film journalist John Kenneth Muir (An Askew View: The Films of Kevin Smith) escorts the reader through a quarter-century of heavy metal laughs, offering a detailed history of the film's genesis and an up-close look at the reasons why this beloved rock-and-roll movie comedy has endured for so long – and even met acceptance in the rock-and-roll culture it lampoons. Features interview material with the cinematographer, editor, and some supporting cast members of This Is Spinal Tap as well as “King of Nostalgia” Joe Franklin.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780879107802
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	09/01/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	142
File size:	960 KB

About the Author

John Kenneth Muir (Charlotte, NC) is the author of Best in Show: The Films of Christopher Guest and Company (Applause, 2004) and The Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia (2007). He is the creator of the independent web series The House Between, which was nominated for “Best Web Production” in 2007 and 2008. Find John on the web at his popular blog: reflectionsonfilmandtelevision.blogspot.com, recently named one of the top “100 film study blogs” on the web.