Contents -- List of Illustrations -- An Overture -- 1 The Status and the Potential of Film-Music That "Doesn't Work" -- 2 "The Motion Picture You're About to See Is a Story of Music": The Migration of Cinema into Rock 'n' Roll -- 3 "It's Not Only Trivial, It's Bad, Vulgar": Ken Russell's Composer Biopics and the Uneasy Realignment of Work and Culture -- 4 Troubling Synthesis: The Horrific Sights and Incompatible Sounds of "Video Nasties" -- 5 Pop Stars Who Can't Act and the Limits of Celebrity "Flexibility" -- The Problems of Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.