{"id":204,"date":"2016-06-02T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/06\/02\/media-services-at-the-movies-popstar\/"},"modified":"2016-06-02T11:58:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T15:58:00","slug":"media-services-at-the-movies-popstar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/06\/02\/media-services-at-the-movies-popstar\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Services at the Movies: Popstar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The summer blockbuster season is here! “Media Services at the Movies” will look at what big movie is coming out this week, then offer a few movies like it from our collection.<\/i><\/p>\n

Every generation gets the music mockumentary it deserves. This is Spinal Tap<\/i> remains the definitive send-up of hair metal rockstar excess. Popstar: Never Stop Never Popping<\/i>, the newest film by The Lonely Island, continues the tradition by skewering Justin Bieber, celebrity ego, and flaming out in the age of social media.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t start or end there: you can look back to 1978’s Beatles parody All You Need is Cash<\/i> or the 90s hip-hop spoof Fear of a Black Hat<\/i>. When a new type of pop star emerges, the world of film has been quick to drag music culture through the mud. Popstar<\/i>‘s Conner4Real is the parody we need right now, but twenty years ago, it needed Chris Rock’s CB4<\/i>.<\/p>\n

This is Spinal Tap \u2013 HU DVD 538<\/a>
CB4 \u2013 HU DVD 6717<\/a>
All You Need is Cash \u2013 HU DVD 10187<\/a>
A Mighty Wind \u2013 HU DVD 10218 <\/a>
Fear of a Black Hat \u2013 HU DVD 12653<\/a><\/p>\n

And because sometimes life imitates art, we also recommend Anvil! The Story of Anvil!<\/i>, a real rock documentary so silly it may as well be a joke too (HU DVD 3461<\/a>).\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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