Saturday Night Fever(1977) 3-2-1 Forum Visual Arts Movie Review
Follows these steps to take part in this week's forum:
Watch Saturday Night Fever
Read this week's article "Gender and Class Mobility in Saturday Night Fever and Flashdance" by Chris Jordan.
Watch this week's Lecture
Open a new document on your computer
Write a response to the following prompts:
- Outline 3 ways that the key themes for the unit - discrimination, gender, heteronormativity - function in Saturday Night Fever
- State 2 things you found interesting in the reading “Gender and Class Mobility in Saturday Night Fever and Flashdance" by Chris Jordan.
- Describe 1 dance scene from the film that illustrates one or more of the key themes
It should also look at how the dances in the movies relate to the themes of the film and provide some more information about dance.
Saturday Night Fever 3-2-1 Forum
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Saturday Night Fever 3-2-1 Forum
Prompt 1
Saturday Night Fever has numerous interesting scenes that depict various themes that include homosexuality, criticism, gender through bristling and raw sciences, with a tough battle aimed at demeaning the femine gender.
* Tony Manero, an Italian American living in New York experiences tough criticism from his maternal father. He did not go to college, an is therefore, despised because this is making him earn less money from the hardware. The father describes Tony as a desperate person who disregards his dancing talent and does not want to grow. In order to escape the criticism and ills he experiences in his life, he goes to the local disco club and becomes king of the dance floor. It is at this place that he receives the respect and admirations he wants.
* Homosexuality is another theme that is vividly portrayed in this film. The diverse relationships are depicted with conventional sexual themes, where sex and love take place between individuals of the same gender. The disco music played throughout the movie is also an origin of the gay discos in the area, which promotes or portrays the theme of homosexuality. Homosexuality is also shown when the directors focus on the feminine side of Tony.
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