Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Contents
1 The Industry at the Dawn of the Decade
2 Merger Mania
3 The Brave New Ancillary World
4 Independents, Packaging, and Inflationary:Pressure in 1980s Hollywood
Justin Wyatt
5 The Talent Oligopoly
6 The Filmmakers
7 Genres and Production Cycles
8 Movies and Morality
9 American Documentary in the 1980s
Carl Plantinga
10 Experimental Cinema in the 1980s
Scott MacDonald
Appendices:
APPENDIX 1 LIST OF TABLES AND CHARTS 
APPENDIX 2 TOP BOX-OFFICE FILMS OF THE 1980s 
APPENDIX :3 MAJOR ACADEMY AWARDS, 1980-1988 
APPENDIX 4 THE NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY 45:3
Notes
Bibliography
Picture Sources
General Index
Index of Films