1980s - Film - Article Index

Encyclopedia - 1980s: Encyclopedia - 1980s
1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. Informally, it can a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Horror Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Horror Film - Other Notable Items
Horror film - Notable directors. Dario Argento Clive Barker Mario Bava Tod Browning John Carpenter William Castle Roger Corman Don Cos...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cellulose Acetate: Encyclopedia - Cellulose Acetate
Cellulose acetate, first prepared in 1865, is the acetate ester of cellulose. Cellulose acetate is used as a film base in photography, an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Woody Allen: Encyclopedia Ii - Woody Allen - Film Career
Woody Allen - Early films. His first movie production was What's New, Pussycat? in 1965, for which he wrote the screenplay. It was a la...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Encyclopedia Ii - The Rocky Horror Picture Show - Cult Following
In spite of (or perhaps because of) its initial luke-warm critical and commercial reception, the film developed a cult following and it b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dumbo: Encyclopedia Ii - Dumbo - History
Dumbo - Production. The film was designed as a economical feature, to help generate income for the Disney studio after the financial fa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Airport Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Airport Film - Further Comment And Plot Outline Airport 1970
The one actor appearing in all four films is George Kennedy in the key role of airline mechanic Joe Patroni, although the sequels seem to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hong Kong Action Cinema: Encyclopedia Ii - Hong Kong Action Cinema - Reinventing Action Cinema
Chan's clowning may have helped extend the life of the kung fu wave. For all that, he had become a star towards the end of the boom, and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brian De Palma: Encyclopedia Ii - Brian De Palma - Career Beginnings And Highlights
Following a disastrous Hollywood foray, in which his next film Get to Know Your Rabbit was reedited by Warner Bros. at the behest of star...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Film Industry: Encyclopedia Ii - Film Industry - Film Theory
Film theory seeks to develop concise, systematic concepts that apply to the study of film/cinema as art. Classical film theory provides a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 2000s: Encyclopedia Ii - 2000s - Trends And Fashion
2000s - United States. Fashion slowly becomes less grungy and more excessive as the wearing of flannel by people under 30 declines and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 2000s: Encyclopedia Ii - 2000s - Events And Trends
2000s - Technology. A huge jump in broadband internet usage, from 6% of U.S. internet users in June, 2000 to what one study predicts w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Film Industry: Encyclopedia Ii - Film Industry - Development Of Film Technology
Filmstock consists of a transparent celluloid, polyester, or other plastic base coated with an emulsion containing light-sensitive chemic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Film Industry: Encyclopedia Ii - Film Industry - Animation
Animation is the technique in which each frame of a film is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photogr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Movie Theater: Encyclopedia Ii - Movie Theater - Business Practice Controversies
A recent development in cinema programming has been the inclusion of commercial advertising shorts that have nothing to do with film. Man...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 42nd Street Manhattan: Encyclopedia Ii - 42nd Street Manhattan - History
The former Longacre Square was renamed to honor The New York Times which established its offices and printing plant nearby. For a long pe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Film Industry: Encyclopedia Ii - Film Industry - Film Crew
A film crew is a group of people hired by a film company for the purpose of producing a film or motion picture. Crew are distinguished fr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tuberculosis: Encyclopedia Ii - Tuberculosis - Tuberculosis In Art, Literature, History And Film
It has been speculated that the real-life ubiquity of illness and death due to tuberculosis affected the portrayal of these issues in Eur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Talking Heads: Encyclopedia Ii - Talking Heads - History
Talking Heads married punk rock sensibilities with poppy sounds, clipped funk, art school intellectualism, and later, world music. In Dav...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Doctor Who: Encyclopedia Ii - Doctor Who - Viewership
Doctor Who has always appeared on the BBC's mainstream BBC One channel, drawing audiences of many millions of viewers. It was most popula...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ghoulardi: Encyclopedia Ii - Ghoulardi - Biography
Ernie Anderson was a big band and jazz enthusiast, and WWII U.S. Navy veteran born in Lynn, Massachusetts on November 22, 1923. This irre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nigel John Taylor: Encyclopedia Ii - Nigel John Taylor - History
Taylor was born in Birmingham, England. He was a shy boy who attended Catholic school, wore glasses (due to a severe myopia over -10 diop...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kate Bush: Encyclopedia Ii - Kate Bush - Video Projects
Kate Bush appeared in many innovative music videos, designed to accompany her singles releases. Among the best known are those for "Cloud...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Michael Eisner: Encyclopedia Ii - Michael Eisner - Disney
After Walt Disney Productions, the world-renowned studio that had been struggling to get by since its founder's death in 1966, narrowly s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Shatner: Encyclopedia Ii - William Shatner - Post-star Trek Career
Shatner had a long dry spell in the decade between the original Star Trek series and the first Trek film, which he believes was due to hi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alice Cooper: Encyclopedia Ii - Alice Cooper - 1970s
In 1970, the band teamed up with fledgling producer Bob Ezrin on their album entitled Love It to Death. This was the first of more than 1...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tangerine Dream: Encyclopedia Ii - Tangerine Dream - History
Edgar Froese arrived in West Berlin in the mid-1960s to study art. He worked as a sculptor and studied under Salvador Dalí, among others...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chumbawamba: Encyclopedia Ii - Chumbawamba - Band History
Originally called The Mirror Boys, Chumbawamba were formed in 1982 from two other bands based in Yorkshire in the North of England, The P...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Woody Allen: Encyclopedia Ii - Woody Allen - Musical Career
Allen studied the clarinet since adolescence. When he changed his name for show business, he took his first name from an idol, famed clar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Billy Connolly: Encyclopedia Ii - Billy Connolly - Career
Billy Connolly - Folk music. Together with Tam Harvey he started a group called the Humblebums, which later included Gerry Rafferty. Co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Curtis Mayfield: Encyclopedia - Curtis Mayfield
Curtis Mayfield (June 3, 1942 – December 26, 1999) was an African American soul, funk and R&B singer, songwriter and guitarist prob...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Xenu: Encyclopedia Ii - Xenu - Other Versions Of The Xenu Story
Hubbard wrote the Revolt in the Stars film script, an extended version of the story of OT III, in the late 1970s. It states Xenu's full n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Police Academy: Encyclopedia Ii - Police Academy - Main Characters
Police Academy - Carey Mahoney. Played by: Steve Guttenberg Mahoney is the lead character of the first four movies of the series. He is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Air Force One: Encyclopedia Ii - Air Force One - Popular Culture
Air Force One is a prominent symbol of the presidency and its power; after the White House, it is probably the most recognized Presidenti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dungeons & Dragons: Encyclopedia Ii - Dungeons & Dragons - References In Popular Culture
As the popularity of D&D grew throughout the late-'70s and '80s, references to the game often began to appear in popular culture. For...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Columbia Pictures: Encyclopedia Ii - Columbia Pictures - History
The predecessor of Columbia Pictures, CBC Film Sales Corporation, was founded in 1919 by Harry Cohn, his brother Jack Cohn, and Joe Brand...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Themes In Blade Runner: Encyclopedia Ii - Themes In Blade Runner - Deckard: Replicant Or Human?
Rick Deckard is the antihero of Blade Runner, hired to "retire" replicants. The nature of most of the characters is clearly shown, yet De...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 2000s: Encyclopedia Ii - 2000s - Trends And Fashion
2000s - United States. Fashion slowly becomes less grungy and more excessive as the wearing of flannel by people under 30 declines and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grunge Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Grunge Music - Mainstream Popularity
Prior to its popularity, grunge was listened to mostly by those who played the music. Bands would play at clubs with very few people in a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Frank Zappa: Encyclopedia Ii - Frank Zappa - Note On His Name
As his autobiography The Real Frank Zappa Book notes, his real name was "Frank", never "Francis". Until rediscovering his birth certifica...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Björk: Encyclopedia Ii - Björk - Personal Life
Björk and her contemporary media artist boyfriend Matthew Barney have a daughter, Isadora, born October 3, 2002. Björk also has a son, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Frank Herbert: Encyclopedia Ii - Frank Herbert - Biography
Frank Herbert was born in 1920 in Tacoma, Washington. He knew from an early age that he wanted to be a writer, and in 1939 he lied about ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mullet Haircut: Encyclopedia Ii - Mullet Haircut - History
The mullet became popular in the 1970s, and was greatly popularised by English pop star David Bowie but was known to have been worn long ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1990s: Encyclopedia Ii - 1990s - Internet
1990s - Other significant events. The massive global human impact on the environment, which first garnered attention in the 60s, was w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Flint Michigan: Encyclopedia Ii - Flint Michigan - History
Some scholars consider the Saginaw Valley, particularly in the vicinity of Flint, to be the oldest continually inhabited part of Michigan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hulk Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Hulk Comics - History
The Hulk was inspired by the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the dichotomy usually consisting of the simple-minded and emotional brute ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Duran Duran: Encyclopedia Ii - Duran Duran - Influence
Although they began their career as an interesting New Wave art-school band in the tradition of Roxy Music, the band's quick rise to star...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zhang Yimou: Encyclopedia - Zhang Yimou
Zhang Yimou (Simplified: 张艺谋; Traditional: 張藝謀; Hanyu Pinyin: Zhāng Yìmóu) (born November 14, 1950) is a Chinese filmmaker...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Handmaid's Tale: Encyclopedia Ii - The Handmaid's Tale - Social Critique
Atwood's tale presents a number of social critiques. It presents a dystopic vision of American society in the period 1970–1985, particu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marilyn Monroe: Encyclopedia Ii - Marilyn Monroe - Early Life
Marilyn Monroe was born on June 1, 1926 in the charity ward of the Los Angeles County Hospital. Her registered name was Norma Jeane Morte...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dumbo: Encyclopedia Ii - Dumbo - Story
The film takes place in a circus setting, ostensibly in present-day 1941, and begins with a formation of storks delivering newborn offspr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Disco: Encyclopedia Ii - Disco - Origins
As with all such musical genres, defining a single point of disco's development is difficult, as many elements of disco music appear on e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Typeface: Encyclopedia Ii - Typeface - History
A font, from Middle French fonte, meaning "(something that has been) melt(ed)" and referring to letters of a typeface produced by casting...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - London: Encyclopedia Ii - London - London Districts
London - Central London. Main article: Central London London - City of London. Main article: City of London The City of London is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bill Cosby: Encyclopedia - Bill Cosby
William Henry "Bill" Cosby, Jr., Ed.D (born July 12, 1937) is an American actor, comedian, educator, television producer and philanthropi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Logan's Run: Encyclopedia Ii - Logan's Run - Plot Conclusion
In the novel Francis, another sandman, catches up with Logan and Jessica after they have managed to escape the cities. He reveals that he...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Piano: Encyclopedia Ii - Piano - Role Of The Piano
The piano is a crucial instrument in Western classical music, jazz, film, television and electronic game music, and most other complex we...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1990s: Encyclopedia Ii - 1990s - People
1990s - World leaders. Prime Minister Bob Hawke (Australia) Prime Minister Paul Keating (Australia) Prime Minister John Howard (Austra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - High-definition Television: Encyclopedia Ii - High-definition Television - Early Systems
High-definition television - SECAM 755i. When Europe resumed TV transmissions after WWII, i.e. in the late 1940s and early 1950s, diffe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chapman Stick: Encyclopedia - Chapman Stick
The Chapman Stick is a musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman in the early 1970s. He set out to create an instrument designed for t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Red Dwarf: Encyclopedia Ii - Red Dwarf - Scenario
In the show, the Red Dwarf is a spaceship 5 miles long belonging to the Jupiter Mining Corporation. An on-board radiation leak kills ever...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1984: Encyclopedia Ii - 1984 - Events
1984 - January. January 1 - Brunei becomes a fully independent state. January 1 - AT&T is broken up into 24 independent units. Ja...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Guiding Light: Encyclopedia Ii - Guiding Light - History
The series was created by Irna Phillips, who based it on personal experiences. After giving birth to a still-born baby at age 19, she fou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Goldeneye 007: Encyclopedia Ii - Goldeneye 007 - Development
The development team working on GoldenEye 007 was very inexperienced; for all but two of them, it was their first game. As David Doak exp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anita Mui: Encyclopedia - Anita Mui
Anita Mui Yim-fong (Traditional: 梅艷芳; Simplified: 梅艳芳; Hanyu Pinyin: Méi Yànfāng; Cantonese Yale: muìh yihm fòng; Octobe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bucharest: Encyclopedia Ii - Bucharest - Culture
Bucharest's has a diverse and growing cultural scene, with cultural life exhibited in a number of various fields, including the visual ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alan Tam: Encyclopedia - Alan Tam
Alan Tam Wing Lun (Traditional: 譚詠麟; Simplified: 谭咏麟; Hanyu Pinyin: Tán Yǒnglín; born 23 August 1952) is a Hong Kong Canto...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Goldeneye 007: Encyclopedia Ii - Goldeneye 007 - Reaction
GoldenEye 007 is one of few cases in which a video adaptation of a film or novel is rated highly amongst gamers. At the time of its relea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Donald Trump: Encyclopedia Ii - Donald Trump - Education
At the age of thirteen, Donald's parents sent him to the New York Military Academy hoping to channel his energy and assertiveness in a po...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Queen Band: Encyclopedia Ii - Queen Band - Historical Success
In 2005, with the release of their live album with Paul Rodgers, Queen moved into third place of the acts with the most aggregate time sp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Queen Band: Encyclopedia Ii - Queen Band - Queen In Musical Theatre
In 2002, a musical or "rock theatrical" based on the songs of Queen, entitled We Will Rock You, opened at the Dominion Theatre on London'...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Superhero: Encyclopedia - Superhero
A superhero is a fictional character who is noted for feats of courage and nobility, who usually has a colorful name and costume and abil...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Viz Comic: Encyclopedia Ii - Viz Comic - Regular Features
Viz comic - Featured Strips. Recurring or notable one-off strips include: Acker Bilk – (See Jimmy Hill) Aldridge Pryor – a patholo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Robert De Niro: Encyclopedia Ii - Robert De Niro - Early Career
De Niro was born in New York City, the son of Robert De Niro, Sr., an abstract expressionist painter, sculptor, and poet of Italian desce...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anime: Encyclopedia Ii - Anime - Characteristics
Anime features a wide variety of artistic styles which vary from artist to artist. Anime also features a large number of genres as well--...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Triad: Encyclopedia - Triad
Triad (Simplified: 三合会; Traditional: 三合會; Hanyu Pinyin: Sānhéhuì; literally "Triad Society") is a collective term that des...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Soap Opera: Encyclopedia Ii - Soap Opera - Soap Opera Characteristics
Soap opera - Plots and storylines. Most soaps follow the lives of a group of characters who live or work in a particular place. The sto...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - February 2004: Encyclopedia Ii - February 2004 - Events
Ongoing events Haiti Rebellion Bloody Sunday Inquiry Exploration of Mars: Rovers Bird flu Israeli-Palestinian conflict Same-sex marriage ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 2000s: Encyclopedia Ii - 2000s - People
2000s - World leaders. President Hamid Karzai (Afghanistan) President Néstor Kirchner (Argentina) Prime Minister John Howard (Austral...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Spain: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Spain - Language
While nearly everyone in Spain can speak Spanish (which is almost universally known in Spain as castellano — "Castilian" — rather tha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Joan Collins: Encyclopedia Ii - Joan Collins - Books
Although her sister Jackie Collins is a best-selling writer, Joan Collins has ventured into writing on a handful of occasions. Her two be...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Burakumin: Encyclopedia - Burakumin
Burakumin (部落民: buraku, community + min, people), or hisabetsu buraku (被差別部落 "discriminated communities") are a Japanese ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - London: Encyclopedia - London
London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. London produces 17% of the UK's GDP, and is one of the world's major bus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Superhero: Encyclopedia Ii - Superhero - Growth In Diversity
From their birth until the early 1960s, superheroes largely conformed to the model of lead characters in American popular fiction in the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Smurfs: Encyclopedia Ii - The Smurfs - Rumors
The Smurfs - Satanic rumors. During 1983, rumors of the Smurfs' Satanic activities spread across Puerto Rico. Those who believed the th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Martial Arts: Encyclopedia Ii - Martial Arts - Martial Arts As Sport
On the subject of competition, martial artists vary wildly. Practitioners in some arts such as Boxing, Taekwondo, Judo, and Brazilian Jiu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Surrealism: Encyclopedia Ii - Surrealism - Philosophy
Surrealist philosophy emerged around 1920, partly as an outgrowth of Dada, with French writer André Breton as its initial principal theo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sarajevo: Encyclopedia Ii - Sarajevo - History
Main article: History of Sarajevo The area of present day Sarajevo has a long and rich history dating back to the Stone age, when the But...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Daredevil: Encyclopedia Ii - Daredevil - Character Overview
Daredevil - Origin. Irish-American Matthew Murdock was raised by single father and fading boxer "Battling Jack" Murdock in the Hell's K...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Syracuse New York: Encyclopedia Ii - Syracuse New York - Colleges And Universities
Syracuse's major university is Syracuse University, located on University Hill. It had an enrollment of 18,604 students (12,645 undergrad...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Science Fiction On Television: Encyclopedia Ii - Science Fiction On Television - Japanese Television Science Fiction
Known for meticulous use of miniatures and hundreds of sci-fi themed anime, Japan has a long history of producing science fiction series ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Franco-ontarian: Encyclopedia Ii - Franco-ontarian - Government
Although Ontario as a whole is not officially bilingual, the Ontario government's French Language Services Act of 1986 designates 23 area...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Britpop: Encyclopedia Ii - Britpop - History
Britpop - The Modfather and Modern Life is Rubbish 1991 – 1993. Weller in particular is praised as the founder and initiator of the m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cork: Encyclopedia Ii - Cork - History
Cork's city charter was granted by King John in 1185. However, Cork has its beginnings in a much earlier monastic settlement, founded by ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New York City: Encyclopedia Ii - New York City - Skyline
New York City has one of the most famous skylines in the world; because of both its high residential density, and the extremely high real...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Art: Encyclopedia - Chinese Art
Life in the People's Republic of China Chinese art is art, whether modern or ancient, that originated in or is practiced in China or by C...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Loyola Marymount University: Encyclopedia Ii - Loyola Marymount University - Athletics
The 2005-06 academic year will mark the 99th year of competition in intercollegiate athletics for the Loyola Marymount University Athleti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Robin Hood: Encyclopedia Ii - Robin Hood - Possible Locations
In modern versions of the legend, Robin Hood is said to have taken up residence in the verdant Sherwood Forest in the county of Nottingha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Japanese American Internment: Encyclopedia Ii - Japanese American Internment - History
During the period of 1939-1941, the FBI compiled the Custodial Detention index ("CDI") on citizens, "enemy" aliens and foreign nationals ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 20th Century: Encyclopedia Ii - 20th Century - Significant People
20th century - World leaders. Africa Gnassingbe Eyadema, Togo Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Côte d'Ivoire Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia Jomo Ke...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Samurai: Encyclopedia - Samurai
Samurai (侍 or 士, samurai?) was a term for the military nobility in pre-industrial Japan. Samurai - Myth and reality. Most samurai we...   » Read the article