A Hard Day's Night: The Beatles' Media-Savvy Mirror on 1960s Mass Media
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Richard Brody
Summary
A critical analysis of the Beatles' 1964 film "A Hard Day's Night," examining how the band and the film reflected the emergence of mass media as a core element of modern consciousness. The piece draws parallels between the Beatles, Andy Warhol, and Jean-Luc Godard as artists who turned the mirror back on media, mocking its codes and conventions while simultaneously fulfilling them. The film centers on a television appearance and showcases the Beatles' anarchic, joyful free-spiritedness.
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· 2 pulledThe sixties—the time when the mass media indeed emerged from behind their neutral mask of means of transmission to become, in themselves, core elements of modern consciousness
Their anarchic and joyful free-spiritedness was both the cause of...
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