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Quadrophenia / Stephen Glynn ; book design by Elsa Mathern.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Glynn, Stephen, author.
- Series:
- Cultographies.
- Cultographies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Who (Musical group).
- Quadrophenia (Motion picture).
- Motion pictures--Production and direction.
- Motion pictures.
- Mod culture (Subculture).
- Rocker culture.
- England--Social conditions--20th century.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (169 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London, [England] ; New York : Wallflower Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- 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!'
- Contents:
- Front matter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- 1. Prequel: Cult into Music
- 2. Production: Cult into Film
- 3. Analysis: Film of Cult
- 4. Reception and Afterlife: Film into Cult
- Epilogue
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 28, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 9780231850551
- 0231850557
- OCLC:
- 979880155
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