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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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