Saturday Night Fever
Seventies dance movie
Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 film starring John Travolta as a Brooklyn teenager whose life revolves around disco dancing.
The film captured the disco era's cultural moment and made its Bee Gees soundtrack iconic.
The title has become shorthand for disco culture generally, or for the feverish weekend energy of dressing up and hitting the dance floor.
- Bee GeesDisco-era brother trio
- discoSeventies dance music
- BrooklynWestern Long Island borough
- working classManual laborers collectively
- mirror ballRotating reflective disco fixture
dance moves · bell-bottoms · John Travolta · white suit · soundtrack · dance floor · disco ball · hustle · 1977 · platform shoes · dancing · club culture · Donna Summer · funk · 70s · polyester · gold chains · New York City
- 70sdisco, bell-bottoms, pet rock, leisure suits, platform shoes
- Dance Mediadance film, dance video, Dancing with the Stars, Dirty Dancing, Flashdance
- 1970sdisco, Watergate, Nixon, Vietnam War, Star Wars
- 70s CinemaThe Godfather, Star Wars, Taxi Driver, Chinatown, Apocalypse Now
- Discodisco ball, Donna Summer, Bee Gees, Gloria Gaynor, Village People
- musicalsWicked, Les Miserables, Cats, Chicago, Grease
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Saturday Night Feverpunk rock
Stripped-down aggressive rock genre
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