Nightclub : bouncers, risk, and the spectacle of consumption / George S. Rigakos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rigakos, George.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bouncers.

Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.

Consumption (Economics).

Nightclubs--Social aspects.

Nightclubs.

Private security services.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

People go to nightclubs to see and be seen - to view others as aesthetic objects and to present themselves as objects of desire. Rigakos argues that this activity fuses surveillance and aesthetic consumption - it fetishizes bodies and amplifies social capital, producing violence and crises fuelled by alcohol. At closing time, patrons flow out of the insular haze of the nightclub and onto city streets, moving from private spectacle to public nuisance. Bouncers are thus both policing agents in the nighttime economy and the gatekeepers of an urban risk market - a site of circumscribed transgression and consumption that begins at the nightclub door.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Nightclub as a Risk Market

“Policing” and “Bouncing”

Bouncer Culture

Getting In

Getting Noticed

Getting Home

Conclusions

Epilogue: Confessions of a “Playa Hata”

Observation Template: Bar Ethnography, Halifax

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612865497

9780773578012

0773578013

9781282865495

1282865498

9780773574946

0773574948

OCLC:

549302172