This Is Spinal Tap
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This is Spinal Tap
Addressing general cinephiles and devoted Tapheads alike, this study considers the film 'This is Spinal Tap' within its contexts of cult cinema, real and mock documentary, Hollywood comedies and musicals and the history of rock music.
This Is Spinal Tap
Spinal Tap is celluloid satire at its finest, as the imaginary heavy metal band Spinal Tap take on the music business under the watchful eye of a TV documentary crew. In this book Karl French taps in to what made this movie the funniest and most revered film ever made about rock music.
This Is Spinal Tap
Author: John Kenneth Muir
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date: 2010-09-01
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.