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The Secret Disco Revolution
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'The Secret Disco Revolution' is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Jamie Kastner and released in 2012.Daniel Pratt, [http://exclaim.ca/film/article/secret_disco_revolution-directed_by_jamie_kastner "The Secret Disco Revolution: Jamie Kastner"]. 'Exclaim!', September 6, 2012. Profiling the disco genre of music and the club culture surrounding it, the film is structured around academic Alice Echols's thesis that the genre played an important role in spurring advances in gender, racial and LGBTQ equality in the late 1970s and 1980s.Dennis Harvey, [https://variety.com/2012/film/markets-festivals/the-secret-disco-revolution-1117948359/ "The Secret Disco Revolution"]. 'Variety', September 18, 2012.
Figures appearing in the film include Thelma Houston, Gloria Gaynor, Martha Wash and members of The Village People.
'The New York Times' said "It's so clever that it makes fun of itself with a mock connecting narrative."Daniel DeWitt, [https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/28/movies/the-secret-disco-revolution-has-a-political-subtext.html "Partying On as the Glitter Ball Whirls"]. 'The New York Times', June 28, 2013. Dennis Harvey of 'Variety' criticized the film for that narrative framing, particularly Kastner's use of three fictional characters who are presented as deliberately orchestrating the creation and rise of the genre. He also wrote that while the overall thesis was reasonable, it sometimes stretched into implausibility, particularly when it posited Donna Summer's single "Love to Love You Baby" as an ode to the female orgasm. Daniel Pratt of 'Exclaim!' also criticized the framing device, calling it confusing and offputting, and writing that "letting the text speak for itself, with a bit of clever editing, would have been far more effective."
The film premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival.Adam Benzine, [https://realscreen.com/2012/07/23/exclusive-tiff-to-host-polleys-stories-kastners-disco/ "Exclusive: TIFF to host Polleys Stories, Kastners Disco"]. 'RealScreen', July 23, 2012. It was subsequently acquired for theatrical distribution by Screen Media Films,Adam Benzine, [http://realscreen.com/2012/11/20/kastners-disco-revolution-heads-to-america/ "Kastners Disco Revolution heads to America"]. 'RealScreen', November 20, 2012. and had a theatrical run in 2013.
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