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Quadrophenia and Mod(ern) Culture

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Editors:
  1. Pamela Thurschwell

    1. University of Sussex, Falmer, United Kingdom

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  • Explores the importance of Quadrophenia to British cultural history and subcultural studies from the 1970s onwards
  • Examines the interaction of Quadrophenia with class, culture, identity, genre, gender and sexuality
  • Contains interviews with Frank Roddam, film director, and Ethan Russell, photographer
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: Dressed Right for a Beach Fight

    • Pamela Thurschwell
    Pages 1-9

  3. Quadrophenia in its Histories

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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  6. Reading Quadrophenia: Genre, Gender, Sexuality

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149
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    2. “What are You Gonna Do Tonight?” “Wait for a Phone Call I Suppose”: Girls, Mod Subculture, and Reactions to the Film Quadrophenia

      • Rosalind Watkiss Singleton
      Pages 151-172

    3. “Poofs Wear Lacquer, Don’t They, Eh?”: Quadrophenia and the Queerness of Mod Culture

      • Peter Hughes Jachimiak
      Pages 173-197

    4. The Drowning Machine: The Sea and the Scooter in Quadrophenia

      • Brian Baker
      Pages 199-216

    5. “You Were Under the Impression, that When You Were Walking Forwards, that You’d End up Further Onwards, but Things Ain’t Quite that Simple”: Time Travelling and Quadrophenia’s Segues

      • Pamela Thurschwell
      Pages 217-234

    6. Interview with Franc Roddam

      • Pamela Thurschwell
      Pages 235-249

    7. Interview with Ethan Russell

      • Pamela Thurschwell, Keith Gildart
      Pages 251-260

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 263-268
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About this book

This collection explores the centrality of The Who’s classic album, and Franc Roddam’s cult classic film of adolescent life, Quadrophenia to the recent cultural history of Britain, to British subcultural studies, and to a continuing fascination with Mod style and culture. The interdisciplinary chapters collected here set the album and film amongst critical contexts including gender and sexuality studies, class analysis, and the film and album’s urban geographies, seeing Quadrophenia as a transatlantic phenomenon and as a perennial adolescent story. Contributors view Quadrophenia through a variety of lenses, including the Who’s history and reception, the 1970s English political and social landscape, the adolescent novel of development (the bildungsroman), the perception of the film through the eyes of Mods and Mod revivalists, 1970s socialist politics, punk, glam, sharp suits, scooters and the Brighton train, arguing for the continuing richness of Quadrophenia’sdepiction of the adolescent dilemma. The volume includes new interviews with Franc Roddam, director of Quadrophenia, and the photographer Ethan Russell, who took the photos for the album’s famous photo booklet.


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“This is probably the best book on Mod culture so far. … it is the one with the best academic approach to it and a real understanding of the subculture that goes beyond pure distanced sociological writing and simplifying banalities … . Highly recommended reading.” (Dr. A. Ebert, popcultureshelf.com, February, 2018)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Sussex, Falmer, United Kingdom

    Pamela Thurschwell

About the editor

Pamela Thurschwell is Reader in English Literature at the University of Sussex, UK. Her publications include Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880–1920 (2001) and Sigmund Freud (2000). She has also published widely on pop music, including essays on Billy Bragg, Bob Dylan, and Elvis Costello. She is currently writing a book on the temporality of adolescence in twentieth century.

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