Life moves pretty fast : the lessons we learned from eighties movies (and why we don't learn them from movies anymore) / Hadley Freeman.
"From Vogue contributor and Guardian columnist Hadley Freeman, a personalized guide to eighties movies that describes why they changed movie-making forever--featuring exclusive interviews with the producers, directors, writers and stars of the best cult classics"--
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New York :
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks,
2016.
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| Edition: | First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Dirty dancing: abortions happen and that's just fine
- The princess bride: true love isn't just about the kissing parts
- Pretty in pink: awkward girls should never have makeovers
- When Harry met Sally: romcoms don't have to make you feel like you're having a lobotomy
- Ghostbusters (with a segue into Top gun): how to be a man
- Ferris Bueller's day off: the impact of social class
- Steel magnolias: women are interesting
- Baby boom: successful women are sexy as hell
- Back to the future: parents are important
- Batman: superheroes don't have to be such a drag
- Eddie Murphy's eighties movies: race can be transcended
- Epilogue.