Dance, Drugs and Escape: The Club Scene in Literature, Film and Television Since the Late 1980s

by Stan Beeler

In the late 1980s the rave phenomenon swept the youth culture of the United Kingdom, incorporating the generations' two newest social stimulants: modern electronic dance music and a notorious designer drug known as Ecstasy. Although the movement began in rebellion against mainstream culture, its underground dynamism soon attracted the interest of novelists, screenwriters, and filmmakers who attempted to reflect the phenomenon in their works. Through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078643001X
• ISBN13: 9780786430017
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.5" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher