Quadrophenia / / Stephen Glynn.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Glynn, Stephen,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Cultographies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (144 p.) :; 40
• Other title: Frontmatter --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231850551; 9783110665864
• DOI: 10.7312/glyn16741
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Stephen Glynn.

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!'