Fever (eBook)

The Complete History of Saturday Night Fever

Margo Donohue (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
288 Seiten
Citadel Press (Verlag)
9780806543949 (ISBN)

Infos

The music! The dancing! The clothes! The hair! (Watch the hair!) Celebrating 50 years of the iconicSaturday Night Fever, this first-ever complete history includes exclusive interviews, rare photographs, behind-the-scenes stories, and brand-new insights into the cult-hit phenomenon that's been stayin' alive for generations . . . ';Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother,' it's impossible to resist the throbbing disco beatsand lasting cultural impactofSaturday Night Fever. Released in December 1977, the low-budget ';disco movie' was the surprise gift that kept on giving. It made millions at the box office, earned an Oscar nomination for TV-actor-turned-movie-star John Travolta, catapulted The Bee Gees' music career into the stratosphere with a record-breaking, Grammy-winning soundtrack album, and ignited a ';disco inferno' that burns to this day. From Travolta's iconic white polyester suit and legendary dance moves, to the flashing lights and illuminated floor of the Odyssey disco in Brooklyn,Saturday Night Fevercaptured the era like no other filmand launched a phenomenon that changed the world forever. Here, for the first time, is the complete history ofSaturday Night Fever. From the New York Magazine article that inspired the film';Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night' by Nik Cohnto the on-and-off-set dramas of Travolta, director John Badham, and producer Robert Stigwood, this deep dive into the making of a movie classic also includes special interviews with actors Donna Pescow and Joseph Cali, among others. It explores the huge impact of the film on the industryincluding a ';Death to Disco' backlashas well as on American culture itself. With modern-day insights into its 1970s-era portrayals of gender, sex, and race, this is a richly detailed, delightfully entertaining celebration as glittering and multi-faceted as a mirrored disco ball. It's a must-have for every movie and music lover who's ever caught theFever. . .

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.8.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 1970s • Academy Awards • Barry Gibb • Bee Gees • blockbuster movies • Broadway • Broadway adaptation • Broadway musical • Brooklyn • Cinema • Cultural Studies • David Shire • Disco • disco ball • Disco Inferno • discoteque • Donna Pescow • Entertainment • Film • Film History • Film Studies • gene siskel • hit movies • Hollywood • John Badham • John Travolta • JohnTravolta • Karen Gorney • KC and the Sunshine Band • Mass media • Maurice Gibb • media • More Than a Woman • Movie industry • Movies • movie soundtrack • Music History • New York City • New York Magazine • night fever • Nik Cohn • NYC • Oscars • Paramount Pictures • pictures at a revolution • polyester suit • Pop Music • popular music • Robert Stigwood • Robin Gibb • RSO Records • Saturday Night Fever • screenplay • Seventies nostalgia • Staying alive • Sylvestor Stallone • Tavares • The Bee Gees • The Big Goodbye • the seventies • The Trammps • The Way They Were • Walter Murphy • Yvonne Elliman
• ISBN-13: 9780806543949 / 9780806543949