Guest editors: Amanda Howell.
Review
Smith's essay, which focuses on the "fish out of water" comedy /School of Rock/,/ /demonstrates the persistence of rock's ideological project in a film whose comedy turns on the "nostalgic, even anachronistic" figure of substitute teacher and middle-aged slacker Dewey Finn--who carves out a place for rock at the elite Horace Green Elementary and promotes a 1970s rock'n'roll vision of youth and culture to a class of ten-year-olds. Messenger discusses the different approaches to the combination of music and cinema taken by Elvis Presley and the Beatles in the early years of their careers; comparing the formal qualities of their films, he shows how differing notions of the youth market shape their representations, narratives, and address. In the case of Fore's account of PRC depictions of youth and music subcultures and Woodgate's discussion of /Sonnenallee/, there is a shared concern for the way that a particular youth cultural moment relates to the identity formation of a nation. Both authors deal with authoritarian regimes where youth cultures are equated with dissident cultures; thus youth's choices and uses of popular music facilitate critical relations with national identity.
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