Problem
Watch Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Research your film.
A. What is the background of this film (e.g., characters, plot, release date)?
B. Focusing on a specific point in American history (McCarthyism, Domestic Containment, Youth Rebellion, Beatlemania, the Cold War, Vietnam, Watergate, Civil Rights, or Feminism), what social issues and historical events were taking place at the time the film was released?
C. Focusing on a specific point in American history, how do you see characters or elements from the film fitting in with important events and issues of the time?
D. How is film a historical artifact (a reflection of the social, political, and cultural current events)?
E. Why do you think these fictionalized accounts of history created in Hollywood shape American's perceptions of events more powerfully and profoundly than the printed word? Be specific.