ABSTRACT
This chapter brings a Cultural Studies film home, providing a relevant and resonant method in which to frame and grasp the visual, aural and temporal bullets fired out of the mise en scene. The disciplinary dialogues between history and Cultural Studies, particularly in youth studies, have been disappointing. Many popular memories can never be written, doomed to be pushed beyond prologues and epilogues and unable to be encased in the cardboard covers of books. Popular music in particular suffers the greatest disparity between social impact and critical interest. The dance between synchrony and diachrony is an embrace of the dead and the living. Every text has a ricking clock within it, bending and attacking the notion that time is objective and linear. Manchester is one of the birthplaces of the industrial revolution. The scale of inequality, poverty and progress changed labour patterns, the production of textiles and even understandings of time.
