Table of Contents:
  • Industry at the dawn of the decade
  • Merger mania
  • Brave new ancillary world
  • Independents, packaging, and inflationary pressure in 1980s Hollywood
  • Talent oligopoly
  • Filmmakers
  • Genres and production cycles
  • Movies and morality
  • American documentary in the 1980s
  • Experimental cinema in the 1980s
  • List of tables and charts
  • Top box-office films of the 1980s
  • Major academy awards, 1980-1989
  • National film registry.