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The importance of another of the British Invasion pop-musicals, Catch Us If You Can, to the establishment of popular music as an ingredient of New Hollywood films is examined. The effect of countercultural movements upon both popular music and Hollywood films is considered, using the relationship between the music of Simon and Garfunkel and the character Benjamin Braddock from The Graduate. Textual analysis of The Graduate is employed to illustrate the consequences of innovations, such as the repeated use of “The Sound of Silence” upon the development of popular music function
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Hogg, A. (2019). The New Hollywood Alienation Phase: The Graduate. In: The Development of Popular Music Function in Film. Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21458-6_4
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