Our
friends at modculture.com have recently flagged-up this new book saying, “We thought
we would flag up Quadrophenia by Stephen Glynn in case you want to get your
hands on a copy.”
The book
is published by Columbia University Press and is described thus:
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!’
Stephen
Glynn is Associate Research Fellow at De Montfort University, UK. His writings
on rock movies range from the particular, A Hard Day's Night (2004), to the
general, The British Pop Music Film (2013).
If you
want a copy, you can get the 144-page book directly from Columbia State Press
for £10.50 or if you want it sooner, you can get it from Amazon.co.uk for the
Kindle for £6.86.
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