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This book constitutes the first full volume dedicated to an academic analysis of British football as depicted on film. From early single-camera silents to its current multi-screen mediations, the repeated treatment of football in British cinema points to the game’s importance not only in the everyday rhythms of national life but also, and especially, its immutable place in the British imaginary landscape. Through close textual analysis together with production and reception histories, this book explores the ways in which professional footballers, amateur players and supporters (the devoted and the demonized) have been represented on the British screen. As well as addressing the joys and sorrows the game necessarily engenders, British football is shown to function as an accessible structure to explore wider issues such as class, race, gender and even the whole notion of ‘Britishness’. .

Soccer in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Motion pictures-Great Britain. --- Ethnology-Europe. --- Sports-Sociological aspects. --- British Cinema and TV. --- British Culture. --- Sociology of Sport and Leisure. --- Motion pictures—Great Britain. --- Ethnology—Europe. --- Sports—Sociological aspects.

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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!'

Motion pictures --- Mod culture (Subculture) --- Rocker culture. --- Rockers (Subculture) --- Subculture --- Modernist culture (Subculture) --- Mods (Subculture) --- Direction of motion pictures --- Film-making (Motion pictures) --- Filmmaking (Motion pictures) --- Motion picture direction --- Motion picture plays --- Motion picture production --- Movie-making --- Moviemaking --- Production of motion pictures --- Production and direction. --- Production and direction --- Direction --- Who (Musical group) --- The Who (Musical group) --- High Numbers (Musical group) --- Quadrophenia (Motion picture) --- England --- Social conditions.

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Through close textual and contextual analysis of British films spanning a century, this book explores how pupils, teachers and secondary education in general have been represented on the British screen. The author addresses a number of topics including the nature of public (fee-paying) and state schooling; the values of special, single-sex and co-education; the role of male and female teachers; and the nature of childhood and adolescence itself. From the silents of Hitchcock to the sorcery of Harry Potter, British cinema’s continued explorations of school life highlights its importance in the nation’s everyday experience and imaginary landscape. Beyond this, the school film, varying in scope from low-budget exploitation to Hollywood-financed blockbusters, serves both as a prism through which one can trace major shifts in the British film industry and as a barometer of the social and cultural concerns of the cinema-going public. This applies especially for gender, race and, in all senses, class. Stephen Glynn has taught in British secondary schools for over thirty years and is currently an Associate Research Fellow at De Montfort University. He has published widely on British cinema, including Palgrave’s The British Pop Music Film: The Beatles and Beyond (2013).

Developmental psychology --- Sociology of culture --- Age group sociology --- Educational psychology --- Didactics of the arts --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Film --- History of civilization --- etnologie --- schoolpsychologie --- cultuur --- film --- kinderpsychologie --- Europese cultuur --- Great Britain --- Europe

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This book constitutes the first full volume dedicated to an academic analysis of British football as depicted on film. From early single-camera silents to its current multi-screen mediations, the repeated treatment of football in British cinema points to the game’s importance not only in the everyday rhythms of national life but also, and especially, its immutable place in the British imaginary landscape. Through close textual analysis together with production and reception histories, this book explores the ways in which professional footballers, amateur players and supporters (the devoted and the demonized) have been represented on the British screen. As well as addressing the joys and sorrows the game necessarily engenders, British football is shown to function as an accessible structure to explore wider issues such as class, race, gender and even the whole notion of ‘Britishness’. .

Sociology of sport --- Sociology --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Film --- Recreation. Games. Sports. Corp. expression --- History of civilization --- etnologie --- sociologie --- TV (televisie) --- sport --- cultuur --- film --- voetbal --- Loach, Ken --- Welsh, Irvine --- Great Britain --- Europe