One of the more illuminating conversations I've had about MCR has been with Linder, who actually raised an injunction to prevent her depiction in 24 Hour Party People appearing *at all* because the boys' club narrative that passes for a popcult history of the city, and the way she would be portrayed there looked hopelessly reductive based on the script she had seen.
I'd be really interested in reading a book that proposes a different history; part of the fun of traveling to MCR 20 years ago (!) was the sense of theatre available to anyone who imagined the city as a stage where musical drama was acted out and the sense of subversion I personally got from toying with that once I knew my preconceptions were both more and less than what played out before my eyes. When I went back in 1995 and 2003 I had confirmation of just how fleeting that world (and worldview) really was.
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One of the more illuminating conversations I've had about MCR has been with Linder, who actually raised an injunction to prevent her depiction in 24 Hour Party People appearing *at all* because the boys' club narrative that passes for a popcult history of the city, and the way she would be portrayed there looked hopelessly reductive based on the script she had seen.
I'd be really interested in reading a book that proposes a different history; part of the fun of traveling to MCR 20 years ago (!) was the sense of theatre available to anyone who imagined the city as a stage where musical drama was acted out and the sense of subversion I personally got from toying with that once I knew my preconceptions were both more and less than what played out before my eyes. When I went back in 1995 and 2003 I had confirmation of just how fleeting that world (and worldview) really was.