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    exhibition of the B movie, defined as a relatively low-cost genre film, has declined substantially from the early 1980s to the present. Spurred by the historic...
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    B movies, albeit in the form of low-budget films and series. Today, the term "B movie" is used in a broader sense. In post-Golden Age usage, B movies...
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    The 1960s and 1970s marked the rise of exploitation-style independent B movies; films which were mostly made without the support of Hollywood's major film...
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    Z movie (redirect from Z movies)
    movies (or grade-Z movies) are low-budget films with production qualities lower than B movies. The term "Z movie" arose in the mid-1960s as an informal...
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    headlining movies as second features in the place of traditional B films. Their longer running time appears to have both accommodated and hastened the progressive...
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    saw large economic growth during this decade. The AIDS epidemic became recognized in the 1980s and has since killed an estimated 40.4 million people (as...
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    Fashion of the 1980s was characterized by a rejection of 1970s fashion. Punk fashion began as a reaction against both the hippie movement of the past decades...
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  • Brat Pack (redirect from Brat Pack (movies))
    The Brat Pack is a nickname given to a group of young actors who frequently appeared together in teen-oriented coming-of-age films in the 1980s. The term...
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    genres, or lurid content. Exploitation films are generally low-quality "B movies", though some set trends, attract critical attention, become historically...
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    throughout the Golden Age, and B movies constituted the majority of Hollywood production during the period. It is not clear that the term B movie (or B film...
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    needed] Similarly, the camcorder spurred changes in pornography in the 1980s, when people could make their own amateur sex movies, whether for private...
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    to Die, the series has earned at least $19.3 billion adjusted for inflation. Pincus-Roth, Zachary (January 8, 2006). "Movies aren't the only B.O. monsters"...
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  • her roles in movies such as Party Camp (1987) and The Return of the Living Dead (1985). Shepard arrived in California in the early 1980s, where she supported...
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    HBO (redirect from H.B.O)
    featured on the network consists primarily of theatrically released motion pictures and original television programs as well as made-for-cable movies, documentaries...
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  • Snuff film (redirect from Snuff movies)
    commercially distributed 'snuff' movies actually exist, the possibility of such movies is implicit in the stock B-movie motif of the mad artist killing his models...
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  • The Waltons is an American television series that aired for nine seasons (1972–1981) on CBS. A further six TV movies aired in the 1980s and 1990s. Below...
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    the comedy Legend of the Owl. Chiang also acted in other comedy movies such as The Challenger and The Loot, directed by Eric Tseng. In the late 1980s...
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  • Teen film (redirect from Teen movies)
    Shary, Timothy. 2005. Teen Movies: American Youth on Screen. Wallflower Press. O'Neill, Patrick. 2016. Investigating the 1980s Hollywood Teen Genre: Adolescence...
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  • releases, the market is considerably smaller than it was in the 1980s and 1990s.[citation needed] In the mid-to-late 2010s, low-budget B-movies that are...
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  • director, and producer. Wynorski has been making B-movies and exploitation movies since the early 1980s, and has directed over 150 feature films. His earliest...
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    Union. Many hit films of 1980s to 2000s was unofficial remakes (some argue, was adaptation or inspired movies) of Hollywood movies such as Jo Jeeta Wohi...
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    Cult film (redirect from Cult movies)
    films. In the 1980s, Danny Peary's Cult Movies (1981) would influence director Edgar Wright and film critic Scott Tobias of The A.V. Club. The rise of home...
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    on its list of the 20 worst movies ever and it is featured in John J. B. Wilson's book The Official Razzie Movie Guide: Enjoying the Best of Hollywood's...
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  • element appeared in numerous B movies. James Luxford, writing for the British Film Institute, said, "Each era has used the scenario for very different...
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    Publishing (2007) p. 405 Ebert, Roger. The Great Movies, Volume 1, Broadway Books (2002) p. 106 Ebert, Roger. 27 Movies from the Dark Side: Ebert's Essentials...
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  • of the action and science fiction genres and one of the best films of the 1980s, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. The success...
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  • Hanna-Barbera (redirect from H-b)
    of media and myriad consumer products. By the 1980s, however, the studio's fortunes were in decline, as the profitability of Saturday-morning cartoons...
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    1972 Love Songs from the Movies 1994 The Best of James Darren 1999 This One's from the Heart 2001 Because of You 2019 Live! For The First Time Many compilation...
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    Nilu Phule was prominent villain that time. In 1980s M. Kothare and Sachin Pilgaonkar made many hit movies on thriller humour and humour genre respectively...
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    though related, ways: as a synonym for B movie, reflecting the relative cheapness characteristic of late-night movies both theatrically and on TV, and as...
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