Tuesday 4 March 2014

‘Here by the Sea and Sand: A Symposium on Quadrophenia’ – line-up revealed by the University of Sussex for 10th & 11th July


 
Thursday 10 July
 
5-7 Showing of Quadrophenia at Duke of York’s Cinema, Brighton (Franc Roddam and Alan Fletcher)
 
Friday 11 July
 
9:30  Registration: Fulton Building, University of Sussex
 
10:00-11:15  Mods and Quads: International perspectives
 
Christine Feldman-Barrett (Griffith University, Australia): Beyond Brighton, Beyond Britain: Quadrophenia and the Post-1960s Mod Diaspora
 
Suzanne Coker on Quadrophenia and Born to Run
 
Paul Hooper-Keeley (University of Derby) Fact or Fiction – Mod or Myth?
 
11:15-11:30 Coffee/Tea break
 
11:30-1:00  “You’re watching movies trying to find the feelers”: Quadrophenia as Cult Film
 
Dolores Tierney (University of Sussex) :Quadrophenia as a ‘new’ cult musical
 
Stephen Glynn (De Montfort University): “Dressed Up Better Than Anyone”:  Quadrophenia and the Cult Film Experience
 
Andy Medhurst (University of Sussex):  From Soho down to Brighton: Capital, Coast and Quadrophenia
 
1:00-2:00 Lunch
 
2:00-3:15  The Who in History
 
Keith Gildart (University of Wolverhampton): Class, Youth and Dirty Jobs: Exploring continuity and change in post-war England through Pete Townshend’s Quadrophenia
 
Sam Cooper (University of Sussex): Heat Wave: The Who, the Mods and the Cultural Turn
 
Ben Winsworth (University of Orleans): ‘Who (the Fuck) are You?’ Out with the In Crowd in Quadrophenia (1973)
 
3:15-3:45 Coffee/Tea break
 
3:45-5:00  Reading Quadrophenia
 
Tom Wright (University of Sussex): 5:15: Mods, Mobility and the Brighton Train
 
Pam Thurschwell (University of Sussex)“You were under the impression that when you were walking forward, you’d end up further onward, but things ain’t quite that simple”: Quadrophenia and historical impasse
 
Brian Baker (Lancaster University): The Drowning Machine: the sea and the scooter in Quadrophenia
5:15-6:30 Keynote: James Wood (Harvard University)
 
Dinner followed by some sort of pub-based activity in Brighton
 
 
 

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