 Dance, drugs and escape: the club scene in literature, film and television since the late 1980s.
Author: Beeler, Stan Published: 2007 In the late 1980s the rave phenomenon swept through the youth culture of the UK, incorporating the social stimulants of electronic dance music and the designer drug Ecstasy. Although the movement began in rebellion against mainstream culture, its underground dynamism soon attracted the interests of novelists, screenwriters, and filmmakers, who attempted to reflect the phenomenon in their works, and this study deals with the transformative effects of film, television and literature on club culture. Chapters furthermore reflect club culture's own effect on crime, ethnicity, sexuality and drug use. As the study traces artistic depictions of club culture's development, each chapter focuses on individual books, films and television shows that reflect the transformation of club culture into what it is today. |
