“Never Had a Buzz Like This”: Mods, “Quadrophenia”, “The Originals” and the Subcultural Identity
Abstract
Kosińska, examining the film (Quadrophenia) by Franc Roddam and the comic (The originals) by Dave Gibbons, tries to explore the question of subcultural identity. Although the action of the film is set in London of the 60s, and the story told by Gibbons in the dark future (The originals is sometimes called a retro-futuristic story), both refer to the subculture of mods. Mods, as modern dandies, concentrated on exceptional image that would lift them in the hierarchy of social order, were the rebels using the style as the form of Refusal. Both film and the comic book mirrors specific style typical for this group - it is visible not only in the looks of the characters, but also in the aesthetics of the film and the book. Trying to descript the new vision of subculture as a whole, Kosińska uses the ideas of Dick Hebdige and also the opposing concepts developed by David Muggleton.
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Franc Roddam, Dave Gibbons, comic, mods, subcultureReferences
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Karolina Kosińskakwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences Poland
Absolwentka kulturoznawstwa (specjalność filmoznawcza) w Instytucie Sztuk Audiowizualnych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. Pracę magisterską dotyczącą form buntu w kinie brytyjskim obroniła pod kierunkiem prof. dr. hab. Tadeusza Lubelskiego w 2002 roku. Od 2003 roku redaktorka „Kwartalnika Filmowego”.
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