A film that captures the essence of the disco craze that flowered in the 1970s, Saturday Night Fever (1977) is arguably the quintessential document of an era that came, a decade later, to be one of the most ridiculed periods of the twentieth century. Supported by a best-selling movie soundtrack and and instantly iconic leading man in John Travolta, Saturday Night Fever survived the demise of 1970s cultural artifacts such as polyester, Soul Train, and KC and the Sunshine Band, to become a cult classic. The film enjoyed a resurgence in popularity with the 1990s disco-culture renaissance that was heralded by such films as Boogie Nights (1997) and The Last Days of Disco (1998). Based on a short story by Nik Cohn and directed by John Badham, Saturday Night Fever starred Donna Pescow, Karen Lynn Gorney, and Travolta as Tony Manero, an average, Italian-American working man by...