[Commlist] New Book – The Sex Pistols on Screen: The Films and the Fury

Colleagues may be interested in this new publication from Routledge – 
*/The Sex Pistols on Screen: The Films and the Fury /*by Stephen Glynn.

Whether or not your idea of a good time is to pogo-dance, gob at the 
stage, or undermine the state apparatus via Situationist practices, do 
please consider requesting a copy of the book for your library. It 
should be relevant to module reading lists across a range of 
disciplines, as indicated below.

A 20% discount is available with the code 25AFLY1 until 30 June.

*Book description:*

This unique book demonstrates the central importance of visual media to 
the significance of British Punk rock pioneers the Sex Pistols, 
beginning with their nation-shocking television interview with Bill 
Grundy in December 1976.

Supported by an examination of surrounding documentary and fictional 
texts, /The Sex Pistols on Screen/ centres on four key film and 
television/streaming depictions with and about the four-man group across 
four decades, namely /The Great Rock ’n’ Roll Swindle/ (Temple, 1980), 
/Sid and Nancy/ (Cox, 1986), /The Filth and the Fury/ (Temple, 2000), 
and /Pistol /(Boyle, 2022). Though promising an oppositional stance, 
these works consistently demonstrate how the mainstream media disarm and 
commodify any genuine sense of mid-1970s anarchy. In addition, their 
differing personal perspectives exemplify the subjectivity and 
self-interested advocacy of all historical interpretation. Nonetheless, 
they still provide a sense of the empowering hit delivered by the Sex 
Pistols’ pugnacious music and galvanic live performances.

Accessible yet academically rigorous, /The Sex Pistols on Screen/ is a 
significant study of the visual media’s importance in forging, reworking 
and reviving both the history and reputation of this seminal band. It 
will appeal both to the general reader and students of film, television, 
media and cultural and popular music studies.

*Review:*

‘This is such a welcome new book! The impact of the Sex Pistols and punk 
rock in film has been scandalously short of scrutiny until this point, 
and Stephen Glynn has done a remarkable job, making a highly readable 
and exquisitely detailed account of their extraordinary handful of 
films. It would be fitting if Glynn's well-researched and engaging book 
reignited interested in them, and to help cement the legacy of one of 
the most influential bands (if not actually the most influential band) 
of all time.’

- Professor K J Donnelly, University of Southampton

Further details are available at the Routledge website:

https://www.routledge.com/The-Sex-Pistols-on-Screen-The-Films-and-the-Fury/Glynn/p/book/9781032964164 
<https://www.routledge.com/The-Sex-Pistols-on-Screen-The-Films-and-the-Fury/Glynn/p/book/9781032964164>


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