Stephen Glynn lectures in Film and Television at De Montfort University. His research specialisms are in British film genres and the interconnections between film and popular music. Previous monographs on cinema and youth culture range from the general, The British Pop Music Film (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), to the specific, A Hard Day’s Night (London: IB Tauris, 2005) and Quadrophenia (London and New York: Wallflower, 2014).
The strength of Glynn's book is that it combines an illuminating analysis of the movies per se, based on the most recent tools of film and music studies, with a sociological insight of the era, providing a new angle from which to consider western youth culture. Claude Chastagner, review for Cercles Journal of English Studies