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""A brightly illustrated, fun to read look back at the decade, the era when home video (primarily VHS) and cable provided new production channels for filmmakers and new ways for audiences to watch. Music videos proliferated, multiplexes mushroomed despite competition from home entertainment and ''the robust market for soundtrack albums' changed the way music was used in movies.""--Shepherd Express ""A coffee table compendium that covers a heroic amount of '80s cinema. It's equal parts guidebook and catalog, with attention to exploring something beyond the blockbusters and Brat Pack epics that make up so much of our cultural-visual shorthand for the Reagan Era.""--Nashville Scene ""[An] entertaining chronicle of the blockbuster films of the 1980s. . . . Using quotes from critics, interviews with actors and directors, and more than 200 photographs, Malahy takes readers for an enjoyable ride through a decade of excess.""--Library Journal

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John Malahy is a film lover, a veteran of Turner Classic Movies, and a product of the 1980s. He is the author of Summer Movies: 30 Sun-Drenched Classics and the editor of Sidney Poitier: The Great Speeches of an Icon Who Moved Us Forward.

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