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American Cinema of the 1980s

SCREEN

AMERICAN CULTURE / AMERICAN CINEMA

DECADES

Each volume in the Screen Decades: American Culture/American Cinema series is

an anthology of original essays exploring the impact of cultural issues on ﬁlm and

the impact of ﬁlm on American society. Because every chapter presents a discussion

of particularly signiﬁcant motion pictures and the broad range of historical events in

one year, readers will gain a systematic and progressive sense of the decade as it

came to be depicted on movie screens across North America. We know that our

series represents just one approach to the growth of the American cinema: to organ-

ize by decades establishes somewhat artiﬁcial borders and boundaries, and each

author’s thematic choices are but one way to understand the culture of a particular

year. Despite such limitations, this structure contextualizes the sprawling progres-

sion of American cinema, especially as it relates to historical and cultural events. We

hope that these books, aimed at scholars and general readers, students and teachers,

will shed valuable new light on, will provide a better understanding of, American

culture and ﬁlm history during the twentieth century.

LESTER D. FRIEDMAN AND MURRAY POMERANCE

SERIES EDITORS

Ina Rae Hark, editor, American Cinema of the 1930s: Themes and Variations

Wheeler Winston Dixon, editor, American Cinema of the 1940s: Themes and

Variations

Murray Pomerance, editor, American Cinema of the 1950s: Themes and Variations

Lester D. Friedman, editor, American Cinema of the 1970s: Themes and Variations

Stephen Prince, editor, American Cinema of the 1980s: Themes and Variations

American Cinema

1980 s

Themes and Variations

EDITED BY

STEPHEN PRINCE

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS

NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY

of the

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

American cinema of the 1980s : themes and variations / edited by Stephen Prince.

p. cm. — (Screen decades)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN–13: 978–0–8135– 4033–7 (hardcover : alk. paper)

ISBN–13: 978–0–8135– 4034– 4 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Motion pictures—United States—History. 2. Motion pictures—United States—Plots,

themes, etc. I. Prince, Stephen, 1955–

PN1993.5.U6A8578 2007

791.430973’09048—dc22

2006021861

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