“…"From Attali's 'cold social silence' to Baudrillard's hallucinatory reality, reproduced music has long been the target of critical attack. In Bytes and Backbeats, however, Steve Savage deploys an innovative combination of designed recording projects, ethnographic studies of contemporary music practice, and critical analysis to challenge many of these traditional attitudes about the creation and reception of music. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: Puzzle plots / Warren Buckland -- The mind-game film / Thomas Elsaesser -- Making sense of Lost Highway / Warren Buckland -- "Twist blindness" : the role of primacy, priming, schemas, and reconstructive memory in a first-time viewing of The Sixth Sense / Daniel Barratt -- Narrative comprehension made difficult : film form and mnemonic devices in Memento / Stefano Ghislotti -- "Frustrated time" narration : the screenplays of Charlie Kaufman / Chris Dzialo -- Backbeat and overlap : time, place, and character subjectivity in Run Lola Run / Michael Wedel -- Infernal Affairs and the ethics of complex narrative / Allan Cameron and Sean Cubitt -- Happy together? …”

“…Along with The Beatles' feature movies and promos, this analysis also contains documentaries, such as The Compleat Beatles and Anthology, as well as dramatizations of the band's history, such as Backbeat, The Hours and Times, and Two of Us »Interessanter [...] …”