Quadrophenia

by Stephen Glynn

2020-09-03 10:51:07

1964: Mods clash with Rockers in Brighton, creating a moral panic. 1973: ex-Mod band The Who release Quadrophenia, a concept album following young Mod Jimmy Cooper to the Brighton riots and beyond. 1979: Franc Roddam directs Quadrophenia, a film base... Read more

1964: Mods clash with Rockers in Brighton, creating a moral panic. 1973: ex-Mod band The Who release Quadrophenia, a concept album following young Mod Jimmy Cooper to the Brighton riots and beyond. 1979: Franc Roddam directs Quadrophenia, a film based on Pete Townshend''s album narrative; its cult status is immediate. 2013: almost fifty years on from Brighton, this first academic study explores the lasting appeal of ''England''s Rebel Without a Cause''. Investigating academic, music, press, and fan-based responses, Glynn argues that the ''Modyssey'' enacted in Quadrophenia intrigues because it opens a hermetic subculture to its social-realist context; it enriches because it is a cult film that dares to explore the dangers in being part of a cult; it endures because of its ''emotional honesty'', showing Jimmy as failing, with family, job, girl, and group; it excites because we all know that, at some point in our lives, ''I was there!''

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File size6.89 X 4.37 X 0 in
Print pages144
PublisherColumbia University Press
Publication date February 18, 2014
LanguageEnglish
ISBN602527805030
Stephen Glynn lectures in Film and Television at De Montfort University. His research specialisms are in British film genres and the interconnections between film and popular music. Previous monograph...

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