Blackboard Jungle

How the music is used in the film: In the famous dance routine in which Gene Kelly sings the title song while twirling an umbrella, splashing through puddles and getting soaked to the skin, Kelly was sick with a 103 °F (39 °C) fever IV. Blackboard Jungle 1. Genre: social commentary film 2. Composer: Max C. Freedman 3. Lyrical content: a story tells about teachers in an inner-city school. It is based on the novel of the same name by Evan Hunter. 4. Tessitura 5.…

The beginning of rock and roll music in Brazil came shortly after its genesis in The United States. After the release of the American film The Blackboard Jungle, a Brazilian cover of the film's featured song, “Rock Around the Clock” by Bill Haley, was soon recorded. This American rock standard performed in Portuguese by Brazilian singer Nora Ney, and its subsequent popularity in Brazil marks the beginning moment of the country's rock music genre. ("History of Brazilian Rock Instro.") Most…

the help of Joanna Shimkus, his second wife. With the help and support of his new family, Sidney was now ready to face whatever would come his way in order to still act. He went back to Hollywood and "had a big breakthrough with "Blackboard Jungle" (Source 2)". He was offered a lead role in this film and filled the role with great enthusiasm. This movie earned him many lead roles in many other films and he always tried his best in all the roles he had. He soon was awarded…

Hello and welcome to Behind the News. Today we take a step into the past to sway, bob and jive through popular music of the 50s, 60s and 70s. These decades were periods of drastic social change, triggered by the rebellious teen demographic and expressed through popular music. Music shaped popular culture in these changing decades, in turn shaping Australian identity. In fact, popular culture is integral in allowing Australians to challenge and rewrite societal ideologies. Stay tuned, as we…

While some might consider the 1950s to represent an era of consensus, when people choose to conform rather than rock the boat, this characterization in not one-hundred percent true. In fact, there was several different groups within the United States that desired and attempted to sink the boat. For instance, an up and rising rock ‘n’ roll musician, Elvis Presley, was becoming a sensational phenomenon for the teenage listeners but was met with anger from the older generations who believed his…

Respected for his artistic efforts, Lewis had that special quality the French called auteur when making a picture truly in his vision. Lewis was a chameleon with each film he directed and still managed to input his style while maintaining the mood of the characters in the story and designing the scenery to fit the tempo of the film, as Hirsch recognizes, “Lewis shifts his own style to accommodate the style of his characters and their setting. The detective in So Dark the Night, on the surface,…

Irving Block (1910 -1986) and Allen Adler (1916 - 1964) wrote the story for Forbidden Planet. “They came up with the idea for something called Fatal Planet as a potential project for one of the B-movie studios” (TCM). Once the idea was pitched to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), they instantly realized the film’s potential went beyond the B-movie variety, “to everybody’s surprise, the studio decided to make this their first science fiction film and budgeted the film at $1 million, later expanding it…

How did advances in technology and the development of the market contribute to new varieties of youth culture? Affluence combined with other crucial demographic, technological, ideological and institutional factors led to new varieties of youth culture. The youth of the 1960s were generally conformist and apolitical. Young people were at a stage in their life where they were most motivated to construct identities, to forge new social groupings and to negotiate alternatives. They had chosen…