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"[[Margaret Thatcher]] (1979) and [[Ronald Reagan]] (1980) came to power ending the ''[[Trente Glorieuses]]''. Major [[civil discontent and violence]] occurred in the [[Middle East]], including the [[Iran–Iraq War]], the [[Soviet–Afghan War]], the [[1982 Lebanon War]], the [[Nagorno-Karabakh War]], the [[1986 United States bombing of Libya|Bombing of Libya in 1986]], and the [[First Intifada]] in the [[Gaza Strip]] and the [[West Bank]]. [[Islamism]] became a powerful political force in the 1980s and many terrorist organizations, including [[Al Qaeda]] started."--Sholem Stein "[[Margaret Thatcher]] (1979) and [[Ronald Reagan]] (1980) came to power ending the ''[[Trente Glorieuses]]''. Major [[civil discontent and violence]] occurred in the [[Middle East]], including the [[Iran–Iraq War]], the [[Soviet–Afghan War]], the [[1982 Lebanon War]], the [[Nagorno-Karabakh War]], the [[1986 United States bombing of Libya|Bombing of Libya in 1986]], and the [[First Intifada]] in the [[Gaza Strip]] and the [[West Bank]]. [[Islamism]] became a powerful political force in the 1980s and many terrorist organizations, including [[Al Qaeda]] started."--Sholem Stein
 +<hr>
 +Another lonely night, another [[lonely]] [[night]]<br>
 +Stare at the TV screen, stare at the [[TV]] screen<br>
 +I don't know what to do, [[I don't know what to do]]<br>
 +I need a rendezvous, I need a [[rendezvous]]<br>
 +
 +--"[[Computer Love (Kraftwerk song)|Computer Love]]" (1981) by Kraftwerk
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'''The 1980s''' refers to the period of and between [[1980]] and [[1989]]. In the [[United Kingdom]] particularly, this decade is often referred to as "the [[Selfishness|Me]] decade" and "the [[Greed]] decade", reflecting the economic and social climate. In the [[United States]] and UK, "[[yuppie]]" entered the lexicon, referring to the well-publicized rise of a new [[middle class]] within the upper economic strata. College graduates in their late 20s/30s were entering the workplace in prestigious office professions, holding more purchasing power in trendy, luxurious goods. '''The 1980s''' refers to the period of and between [[1980]] and [[1989]]. In the [[United Kingdom]] particularly, this decade is often referred to as "the [[Selfishness|Me]] decade" and "the [[Greed]] decade", reflecting the economic and social climate. In the [[United States]] and UK, "[[yuppie]]" entered the lexicon, referring to the well-publicized rise of a new [[middle class]] within the upper economic strata. College graduates in their late 20s/30s were entering the workplace in prestigious office professions, holding more purchasing power in trendy, luxurious goods.
-It was also known as "the purple passage of the late 1980s". The Autumn of Nations led towards the withdrawal of Soviet troops at the conclusion of the [[Soviet-Afghan War]], [[Berlin wall|fall of the Berlin Wall]] and the end of [[Cold War]]. The era was characterized by the blend of conservative family values alongside a period of increased telecommunications, shift towards liberal market economies and the new openness of [[perestroika]] and [[glasnost]]. This transitional passage also saw massive democratic revolutions such as the [[Tiananmen Square protests of 1989]] in [[China]], the [[Velvet Revolution|Czechoslovak velvet revolution]], and the overthrow of the [[dictatorship|dictatorial]] regime in [[Romania]] and other [[communist state|communist]] [[Warsaw Pact]] states in [[Central Europe|Central]] and [[Eastern Europe]]. These changes continued to be felt in the 1990s and on into the [[21st century]].+The Autumn of Nations led towards the withdrawal of Soviet troops at the conclusion of the [[Soviet-Afghan War]], [[Berlin wall|fall of the Berlin Wall]], the [[Revolutions of 1989]] and the end of [[Cold War]]. The era was characterized by the blend of conservative family values alongside a period of increased telecommunications, shift towards liberal market economies and the new openness of [[perestroika]] and [[glasnost]]. This transitional passage also saw massive democratic revolutions such as the [[Tiananmen Square protests of 1989]] in [[China]], the [[Velvet Revolution|Czechoslovak velvet revolution]], and the overthrow of the [[dictatorship|dictatorial]] regime in [[Romania]] and other [[communist state|communist]] [[Warsaw Pact]] states in [[Central Europe|Central]] and [[Eastern Europe]]. These changes continued to be felt in the 1990s and on into the [[21st century]].
-The 1980s was also an era of tremendous population growth around the world, comparable only to the 1970s or 1990s to being among the largest in human history. This growth occurred not only in developing regions but also developed western nations, where many newborns were the offspring of the largely populated [[Baby Boomers]].+The 1980s was also an era of tremendous population growth around the world, comparable only to the 1970s or 1990s to being among the largest in human history. This growth occurred not only in developing regions but also developed western nations, where many newborns were the offspring of the largely populated [[baby boomers]].
-==Hilights==+==[[Highlights]]==
-*1980 [[Dressed to Kill]] by Brian De Palma+*1980 ''[[Dressed to Kill (1980 film) |Dressed to Kill]]'' by Brian De Palma
*1981 first cases of [[AIDS]] *1981 first cases of [[AIDS]]
*1982 ''[[Ranx 1: Ranx à New-york]]'' by Stefano Tamburini/Tanino Liberatore *1982 ''[[Ranx 1: Ranx à New-york]]'' by Stefano Tamburini/Tanino Liberatore
*1983 ''[[Videodrome]]'' by David Cronenberg *1983 ''[[Videodrome]]'' by David Cronenberg
*1984 [[Apple Macintosh]] introduced *1984 [[Apple Macintosh]] introduced
-*1985 [[House music]]: "[[Mysteries of Love]]" by Fingers, Inc.+*1985 [[House music]]: "[[Mystery of Love (Larry Heard song) |Mysteries of Love]]" by Fingers, Inc.
*1986 ''[[Incredibly Strange Films]]'' by V. Vale, Andrea Juno *1986 ''[[Incredibly Strange Films]]'' by V. Vale, Andrea Juno
-*1987 ''[[A Thousand Plateaus]]'' by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari+*1987 ''[[The Way Things Go]]'' by Peter Fischli & David Weiss
*1988 [[Morris worm]] *1988 [[Morris worm]]
*1989 Europe: [[Berlin wall falls]] *1989 Europe: [[Berlin wall falls]]
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===Music=== ===Music===
-The decade saw the emergence of [[New Wave music|new wave]], [[electronic music]] (e.g., [[synthpop]]) the use of the [[synthesizer]], and the introduction of [[hip hop]] and sampling. +With releases such as ''[[Computer World]]'' (1981) by [[Kraftwerk]], the decade saw the emergence of [[New Wave music|new wave]], [[electronic music]] (e.g., [[synthpop]]) the use of the [[synthesizer]], and the introduction of [[hip hop]] and sampling.
The decade began with a [[backlash against disco]] music and a movement away from the [[Disco orchestration|orchestral arrangements]] that had characterized much of the music of the 1970s. Music in the 1980s was characterized by [[electronic sounds]] accomplished through the use of [[synthesizer]]s and [[keyboards]], along with [[drum machine]]s. The music channel [[MTV]] began the trend of the [[music video]]. The first video to be aired on MTV was [[Buggles]]'s "[[Video Killed The Radio Star]]". The decade began with a [[backlash against disco]] music and a movement away from the [[Disco orchestration|orchestral arrangements]] that had characterized much of the music of the 1970s. Music in the 1980s was characterized by [[electronic sounds]] accomplished through the use of [[synthesizer]]s and [[keyboards]], along with [[drum machine]]s. The music channel [[MTV]] began the trend of the [[music video]]. The first video to be aired on MTV was [[Buggles]]'s "[[Video Killed The Radio Star]]".
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The largest world cities like New York ([[Paradise Garage]], [[The Loft]]), [[Manchester]] ([[The Haçienda]]), [[Paris]] ([[Les Bains Douches]]), [[Ibiza]] ([[Pacha]]), Antwerp ([[Ancienne Belgique (Antwerp)|Ancienne Belgique]]) played a significant role in the evolution of [[Clubbing (subculture)|clubbing]], [[DJ]] culture and [[nightlife]]. The largest world cities like New York ([[Paradise Garage]], [[The Loft]]), [[Manchester]] ([[The Haçienda]]), [[Paris]] ([[Les Bains Douches]]), [[Ibiza]] ([[Pacha]]), Antwerp ([[Ancienne Belgique (Antwerp)|Ancienne Belgique]]) played a significant role in the evolution of [[Clubbing (subculture)|clubbing]], [[DJ]] culture and [[nightlife]].
-New genres included [[New Wave music|New Wave]], [[Synthpop]], [[Hip Hop]], [[House music|House]], [[Acid House]], [[Techno]], [[Rave]], [[Freestyle]], [[Electro music|Electro]], [[Eurodisco]], [[Italo Disco]], [[Hi-NRG]], [[Balearic]], [[jazz-funk]], [[post-disco]], [[Northern soul]] and [[80s groove]]+New genres included [[New Wave music|new wave]], [[synth-pop]], [[hip hop]], [[House music|house]], [[acid house]], [[techno]], [[rave music|rave]], [[freestyle]], [[Electro music|electro]], [[eurodisco]], [[italo disco]], [[hi-nrg]], [[balearic]], [[jazz-funk]], [[post-disco]], [[northern soul]] and [[80s groove]]
 +====From the Jahsonic 1000====
 +:''[[1980#Singles]], [[1981#Singles]], [[1982#Singles]], [[1983#Singles]], [[1984#Singles]], [[1985#Singles]], [[1986#Singles]], [[1987#Singles]], [[1988#Singles]], [[1989#Singles]]
 +:''[[Jahsonic_1000#Chronologically]]''
====Playlists==== ====Playlists====
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===Film=== ===Film===
 +:''[[1980#Film]], [[1981#Film]], [[1982#Film]], [[1983#Film]], [[1984#Film]], [[1985#Film]], [[1986#Film]], [[1987#Film]], [[1988#Film]], [[1989#Film]]
-The films of the 1980s covered many genres, with hybrids crossing between multiple genres. The trend strengthened towards creating ever-larger [[Blockbuster (entertainment)|blockbuster]] films, which earned more in their opening weeks than any previous film, due in part to staging releases when audiences had little else to choose.+;hightlights
-*''[[Dressed to Kill]]'' (1980) - Brian De Palma+* ''[[Dressed to Kill]]'' (1980) by Brian De Palma
-*''[[Coup de Torchon]]'' (1981)- Bertrand Tavernier+* ''[[Coup de Torchon]]'' (1981) by Bertrand Tavernier
-*''[[Q (1982 film)|Q]]'' (1982) - Larry Cohen+* ''[[Eating Raoul]]'' by Paul Bartel
-*''[[Videodrome]]'' (1983) - David Cronenberg+* ''[[Videodrome]]'' (1983) by David Cronenberg
-*''[[Blood Simple]]'' (1984) - Coen Brothers+* ''[[Blood Simple]]'' (1984) by Coen Brothers
-*''[[Tampopo]]'' (1985) - Juzo Itami+* ''[[Tampopo]]'' (1985) by Juzo Itami
-*''[[Blue Velvet (film) |Blue Velvet]]'' (1986) - David Lynch+* ''[[Blue Velvet (film) |Blue Velvet]]'' (1986) by David Lynch
-*''[[Amazon Women on the Moon]]'' (1987) - Carl Gottlieb, John Landis+* ''[[Amazon Women on the Moon]]'' (1987) by Carl Gottlieb, John Landis
* ''[[Drowning by Numbers]]'' (1988) by Peter Greenaway * ''[[Drowning by Numbers]]'' (1988) by Peter Greenaway
-*''[[Tetsuo: The Iron Man]]'' (1989) - Shinya Tsukamoto+* ''[[Tetsuo: The Iron Man]]'' (1989) by Shinya Tsukamoto
 + 
 +During the 1980s, audiences began increasingly watching films on their home [[VCR]]s. In the early part of that decade, the [[film studio]]s tried legal action to ban home ownership of VCRs as a violation of [[copyright]], which proved unsuccessful. Eventually, the sale and rental of films on [[home video]] became a significant "second venue" for exhibition of films, and an additional source of revenue for the film industries. [[Direct-to-video]] (niche) markets usually offered lower quality, cheap productions that were not deemed very suitable for the general audiences of television and theatrical releases.
 + 
 +The [[George Lucas|Lucas]]–[[Steven Spielberg|Spielberg]] combine would dominate "Hollywood" cinema for much of the 1980s, and lead to much imitation. Two follow-ups to ''[[Star Wars (film)|Star Wars]]'', three to ''[[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]'', and three ''[[Indiana Jones (franchise)|Indiana Jones]]'' films helped to make sequels of successful films more of an expectation than ever before. Lucas also launched [[THX|THX Ltd]], a division of [[Lucasfilm]] in 1982, while Spielberg enjoyed one of the decade's greatest successes in ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial]]'' the same year. 1982 also saw the release of Disney's ''[[Tron]]'' which was one of the first films from a major studio to use [[computer graphics]] extensively. American independent cinema struggled more during the decade, although [[Martin Scorsese]]'s ''[[Raging Bull]]'' (1980), ''[[After Hours (film)|After Hours]]'' (1985), and ''[[The King of Comedy (film)|The King of Comedy]]'' (1983) helped to establish him as one of the most critically acclaimed American film makers of the era. Also during 1983 ''[[Scarface (1983 film)|Scarface]]'' was released, which was very profitable and resulted in even greater fame for its leading actor [[Al Pacino]]. Probably the most successful film commercially was [[Tim Burton]]'s 1989 version of [[Bob Kane]]'s creation, ''[[Batman (1989 film)|Batman]]'', which broke box-office records. [[Jack Nicholson]]'s portrayal of the demented [[Joker (comics)|Joker]] earned him a total of $60,000,000 after figuring in his percentage of the gross.
 + 
 +British cinema was given a boost during the early 1980s by the arrival of [[David Puttnam]]'s company [[Goldcrest Films]]. The films ''[[Chariots of Fire]]'', ''[[Gandhi (film)|Gandhi]]'', ''[[The Killing Fields (film)|The Killing Fields]]'' and ''[[A Room with a View (1986 film)|A Room with a View]]'' appealed to a "middlebrow" audience which was increasingly being ignored by the major Hollywood studios. While the films of the 1970s had helped to define modern [[blockbuster (entertainment)|blockbuster]] motion pictures, the way "Hollywood" released its films would now change. Films, for the most part, would premiere in a wider number of theatres, although, to this day, some films still premiere using the route of the [[Roadshow theatrical release|limited/roadshow release system]]. Against some expectations, the rise of the multiplex cinema did not allow less mainstream films to be shown, but simply allowed the major blockbusters to be given an even greater number of screenings. However, films that had been overlooked in cinemas were increasingly being given a second chance on home video.
 + 
 +During the 1980s, [[Japanese cinema]] experienced a revival, largely due to the success of [[anime films]]. The most famous anime film of this decade was [[Katsuhiro Otomo]]'s cyberpunk film ''[[Akira (1988 film)|Akira]]'' (1988), which although initially unsuccessful at Japanese theaters, went on to become an international success.
 + 
 +[[Hong Kong action cinema]], which was in a state of decline due to endless [[Bruceploitation]] films after the death of [[Bruce Lee]], also experienced a revival in the 1980s, largely due to the reinvention of the [[action film]] genre by [[Jackie Chan]]. He had previously combined the [[comedy film]] and [[martial arts film]] genres successfully in the 1978 films ''[[Snake in the Eagle's Shadow]]'' and ''[[Drunken Master]]''.
===Television=== ===Television===
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* [[Rubik's cube]] became a popular fad throughout the decade. * [[Rubik's cube]] became a popular fad throughout the decade.
===Literature=== ===Literature===
-*'''[[1980 in literature]]''' – John le Carré's ''[[Smiley's People]]''; Robert Ludlum's [[Bourne (novel series)#Novels by Ludlum|''Jason Bourne'' trilogy]]; J. M. Coetzee's ''[[Waiting for the Barbarians]]''; William Maxwell's ''[[So Long, See You Tomorrow (novel)|So Long, See You Tomorrow]]''; Anthony Burgess's ''[[Earthly Powers]]''; Umberto Eco's ''Il nome della rosa ([[The Name of the Rose]])''; John Kennedy Toole's ''[[A Confederacy of Dunces]]''; Gay Talese's ''[[Thy Neighbor's Wife (book)|Thy Neighbor's Wife]]''; Brian Friel's play ''[[Translations (play)|Translations]]'' first performed; Ken Follett's ''[[The Key to Rebecca]]''; Death of [[Jean-Paul Sartre]]+;'''[[1980 in literature]]'''
-*'''[[1981 in literature]]''' – Salman Rushdie's ''[[Midnight's Children]]''; Thomas Harris's ''[[Red Dragon (novel)|Red Dragon]]''; Death of [[Christy Brown]]+; fiction
-*'''[[1982 in literature]]''' – José Saramago's ''Memorial do Convento'' (''[[Baltasar and Blimunda]]''); Alice Walker's ''[[The Color Purple]]''; Primo Levi's ''Se non ora, quando?'' (''[[If Not Now, When? (novel)|If Not Now, When?]]''); L. Ron Hubbard's ''[[Battlefield Earth (novel)|Battlefield Earth]]''; Isabel Allende's ''[[La casa de los espíritus]]'' (''[[The House of the Spirits]]''); Charles Bukowski's ''[[Ham on Rye]]''; Roald Dahl's ''[[The BFG]]''; Tom Stoppard's ''[[The Real Thing (play)|The Real Thing]]''; Fernando Pessoa's ''[[The Book of Disquiet]]''; Stephen King's ''[[The Gunslinger]]''; David Eddings' ''[[The Belgariad]]''; Ken Follett's ''[[The Man from St. Petersburg]]''; Death of [[Philip K. Dick]]+*''[[The Brave Little Toaster (novel)|The Brave Little Toaster]]'' by Thomas M. Disch
-*'''[[1983 in literature]]''' – J. M. Coetzee's ''[[Life & Times of Michael K]]''; Salman Rushdie's ''[[Shame]]''; Terry Pratchett's ''[[Discworld]]''; Parker Brothers and Random House publish the first ''[[List of Care Bears books#English-language books|Care Bears]]'' books; Ken Follett's ''[[On Wings of Eagles]]''; Norman Mailer's ''[[Ancient Evenings]]''; Stephen King's ''[[Pet Sematary]]''; Dean Koontz's ''[[Phantoms (novel)|Phantoms]]''; Lynley Dodd's ''[[Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy]]''; Palanca Awardee's ''[[Luha ng Buwaya]]''; Death of [[Arthur Koestler]]+*''[[A Confederacy of Dunces]]'' by John Kennedy Toole first published
-*'''[[1984 in literature]]''' – Milan Kundera's ''[[The Unbearable Lightness of Being]]''; José Saramago's ''O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis'' (''[[The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis]]''); Richard Harris' play ''[[Stepping Out (play)|Stepping Out]]'' first performed; Don DeLillo's ''[[White Noise (novel)|White Noise]]''; Julian Barnes's ''[[Flaubert's Parrot]]''; Tom Clancy's ''[[The Hunt for Red October]]''; Milorad Pavic's ''[[Dictionary of the Khazars]]''; Antonio Tabucchi's ''[[Indian Nocturne]]''; Glen Cook's ''[[The Black Company (novel)|The Black Company]]''; Death of [[Truman Capote]], [[Michel Foucault]]+*''[[The Name of the Rose]]'' by Umberto Eco
-*'''[[1985 in literature]]''' – Margaret Atwood's ''[[The Handmaid's Tale]]''; Gabriel García Márquez's ''El amor en los tiempos del cólera'' (''[[Love in the Time of Cholera]]''); Patrick Süskind's ''[[Perfume (novel)|Perfume]]''; Carlos Fuentes's ''[[The Old Gringo]]''; Chris Van Allsburg's ''[[The Polar Express]]''; Orson Scott Card's ''[[Ender's Game]]''; Ken Follett's ''[[Lie Down with Lions]]''; Death of [[Italo Calvino]]+ 
-*'''[[1986 in literature]]''' – Thomas Bernhard's ''[[Extinction (Bernhard novel)|Extinction]]''; Caryl Churchill's ''[[A Mouthful of Birds]]''; Stephen King's ''[[It (novel)|It]]''; Brian Lumley's ''[[Necroscope]]''; Tony Ross' ''[[Little Princess (TV series)|I Want My Potty]]''; Clive Barker's ''[[The Hellbound Heart]]''; Brian Jacques' ''[[Redwall (novel)|Redwall]]''; Diana Wynne Jones' ''[[Howl's Moving Castle]]''; Death of [[Jorge Luis Borges]], [[Simone de Beauvoir]], [[Jean Genet]], [[Christopher Isherwood]], [[Juan Rulfo]], [[Jaroslav Seifert]]+;non-fiction
-*'''[[1987 in literature]]''' – Toni Morrison's ''[[Beloved (novel)|Beloved]]''; Alfred Uhry's play ''[[Driving Miss Daisy (play)|Driving Miss Daisy]]'' first performed; Haruki Murakami's ''Noruwei no mori'' (''[[Norwegian Wood (novel)|Norwegian Wood]]''); Tom Clancy's ''[[Patriot Games]]''; Robert Hughes' ''[[The Fatal Shore]]''; Martin Handford's ''[[Where's Wally? (book)|Where's Wally?]]''; Stephen King's ''[[Misery (novel)|Misery]]''; Dean Koontz's ''[[Watchers (novel)|Watchers]]''; Death of [[Primo Levi]]+ 
-*'''[[1988 in literature]]''' – Salman Rushdie's ''[[The Satanic Verses (novel)|The Satanic Verses]]''; Noam Chomsky's ''[[Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media]]''; Stephen Hawking's ''[[A Brief History of Time]]''; Roald Dahl's ''[[Matilda (novel)|Matilda]]''; Peter Carey's ''[[Oscar and Lucinda]]''; Alan Hollinghurst's ''[[The Swimming Pool Library]]''; Grazyna Miller's ''[[Curriculum]]'', Umberto Eco's ''Il pendolo di Foucault'' (''[[Foucault's Pendulum]]'')+*''[[The Third Wave (Toffler book)|The Third Wave]]'' by Alvin Toffler
-*'''[[1989 in literature]]''' – Kazuo Ishiguro's ''[[The Remains of the Day]]''; John Banville's ''[[The Book of Evidence]]''; Amy Tan's ''[[The Joy Luck Club (novel)|The Joy Luck Club]]''; Michael Rosen's ''[[We're Going on a Bear Hunt]]''; Ken Follett's ''[[The Pillars of the Earth]]''; David McKee's ''[[Elmer the Patchwork Elephant|Elmer]]''; Death of [[Samuel Beckett]], [[Thomas Bernhard]]+*''[[The Shock of the New]]'' by Robert Hughes
 +*''[[A Thousand Plateaus]]'' by Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari
 +* ''[[The Dictionary of Imaginary Places]]'' by Alberto Manguel
 +* ''[[Powers of Horror]]'' by Julia Kristeva
 + 
 +;'''[[1981 in literature]]'''
 + 
 +; fiction
 +*''[[The Comfort of Strangers]]'' by Ian McEwan
 +*''[[Cities of the Red Night]]'' by William Burroughs
 +* ''[[Lanark: A Life in Four Books]]'' by Alasdair Gray
 + 
 +; non-fiction
 +*''[[Cult Movies (book)|Cult Movies]]'' by Danny Peary
 +*''[[The Celluloid Closet]]'' by Vito Russo
 +*''[[Danse Macabre (book)|Danse Macabre]]'' by Stephen King
 +*''[[Literary Machines]]'' by Ted Nelson
 +*''[[Thy Neighbor's Wife (book)|Thy Neighbor's Wife]]'' by Gay Talese
 +* ''[[Simulacra and Simulation]]'' by Jean Baudrillard
 +* ''[[Le capitalisme de la séduction]]'' by Michel Clouscard
 +* ''[[The End of the Road: Vanishing Highway Architecture in America|The End of the Road]]'' by John Margolies
 +* ''[[Memphis: The New International Style]]'' by Barbara Radice
 + 
 +; '''[[1982 in literature]]'''
 + 
 +; fiction
 +*''[[RanXerox in New York]]'' by Tanino Liberatore and Tamburini
 +*''[[Virginie, Her Two Lives]]'' by John Hawkes
 +*''[[Spanking the Maid]]'' by Robert Coover
 +*''[[Before She Met Me]]'' by Julian Barnes
 +*''[[Baltasar and Blimunda]]'' by José Saramago
 + 
 +; non-fiction
 +*''[[Invention of Hysteria]]'' by Georges Didi-Huberman
 +*''[[Uncommon Places]]'' by Stephen Shore
 + 
 +; '''[[1983 in literature]]'''
 + 
 +; fiction
 +*''[[Gilles and Jeanne]]'' by Michel Tournier
 +*''[[Pet Sematary]]'' by Stephen King
 +;non-fiction
 +*''[[Midnight Movies]]'' by Jeffrey Hoberman and Jonathan Rosenbaum
 +*''[[Critique of Cynical Reason]]'' by Sloterdijk
 +*''[[The Style of the Century]]'' by Bevis Hillier
 +*''[[The Tears of the White Man]]'' by Pascal Bruckner
 + 
 +;'''[[1984 in literature]]'''
 + 
 +; fiction
 +*''[[Neuromancer]]'' by William Gibson
 +*''[[The Wasp Factory]]'' by Iain Banks
 +*''[[The Unbearable Lightness of Being ]]'' by Milan Kundera
 +*''[[Dictionary of the Khazars]]'' by Milorad Pavić
 +*''[[Flaubert's Parrot]]'' by Julian Barnes
 + 
 +; non-fiction
 +*''[[The Hot House]]'' by Andrea Branzi
 +*''[[Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism]]'' by Frederic Jameson
 +*''[[Ninety-nine Novels]]'' by Anthony Burgess
 +*''[[Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notions]]'' by John Michell
 +*''[[The Great Cat Massacre]]'' by Robert Darnton
 + 
 +;'''[[1985 in literature]]'''
 + 
 +; fiction
 +*''[[Perfume (novel)|Perfume]]'' by Patrick Süskind
 +*''[[The Voyeur]]'' by Alberto Moravia
 +*''[[White Noise (novel) |White Noise]]'' by Don DeLillo
 +*''[[The Handmaid's Tale]]'' by Margaret Atwood
 + 
 +; non-fiction
 +*''[[The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat]]'' by Oliver W. Sacks
 +*''[[Amusing Ourselves to Death]]'' by Neil Postman
 +*''[[The Originality of the Avant-Garde]]'' by Rosalind E. Krauss
 +*''[[Reflexivity in Film and Literature]]'' by Robert Stam
 +*''[[A Cyborg Manifesto]]'' by Donna Haraway
 +*''[[Fous à lire, fous à lier]]'' by Gérard Oberlé
 + 
 +;'''[[1986 in literature]]'''
 +; fiction
 +* ''[[Nothing Natural]]'' by Jenny Diski
 +* ''[[Mirrorshades]]'' by Bruce Sterling
 +*''[[La plus belle paire de seins du monde]]'', a collection of stories by Roland Topor
 +*''[[Howl's Moving Castle]]'' by Diana Wynne Jones
 + 
 +; non-fiction
 +* ''[[Incredibly Strange Films]]'' by V. Vale and Andrea Juno
 +* ''[[Lequeu : An Architectural Enigma]]'' by Philippe Duboÿ
 +* ''[[Idols of Perversity]]'' by Bram Dijkstra
 + 
 +;'''[[1987 in literature]]''' –
 + 
 +; non-fiction
 +*''[[Cut 'n' Mix]]'' by Dick Hebdige
 +*''[[The Fatal Shore]]'' by Robert Hughes
 +*''[[The Secret Museum]]'' by Walter Kendrick
 + 
 +;'''[[1988 in literature]]'''
 +;fiction
 +* ''[[The Satanic Verses]]'' by Salman Rushdie
 +* ''[[Bad Behavior]]'' by Mary Gaitskill
 +* ''[[Foucault's Pendulum]]'' by Umberto Eco
 +;non fiction
 +*''[[The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders]]'' by Colin Wilson
 + 
 +;'''[[1989 in literature]]'''
 + 
 +;fiction
 +*''[[The Quincunx]]'' by Charles Palliser
 +*''[[London Fields (novel)|London Fields]]'' by Martin Amis
 +;non-fiction;
 +*''[[Lipstick Traces|Lipstick Traces, a Secret History of 20th Century]]'' by Greil Marcus
 +*''[[No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture]]'' by Andrew Ross
 +*''[[Hard Core: Power, Pleasure]]'' by Linda Williams
 +*''[[Rants and Incendiary Tracts]]'' by Bob Black and Adam Parfrey
 +*''[[Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity]]'' by Richard Rorty
==Visual arts== ==Visual arts==
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== See also == == See also ==
-*[[1980s subcultures]]+*[[History_of_modern_Western_subcultures#1980s|1980s subcultures]]
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"Margaret Thatcher (1979) and Ronald Reagan (1980) came to power ending the Trente Glorieuses. Major civil discontent and violence occurred in the Middle East, including the Iran–Iraq War, the Soviet–Afghan War, the 1982 Lebanon War, the Nagorno-Karabakh War, the Bombing of Libya in 1986, and the First Intifada in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Islamism became a powerful political force in the 1980s and many terrorist organizations, including Al Qaeda started."--Sholem Stein

Another lonely night, another lonely night
Stare at the TV screen, stare at the TV screen
I don't know what to do, I don't know what to do
I need a rendezvous, I need a rendezvous

--"Computer Love" (1981) by Kraftwerk

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The 1980s refers to the period of and between 1980 and 1989. In the United Kingdom particularly, this decade is often referred to as "the Me decade" and "the Greed decade", reflecting the economic and social climate. In the United States and UK, "yuppie" entered the lexicon, referring to the well-publicized rise of a new middle class within the upper economic strata. College graduates in their late 20s/30s were entering the workplace in prestigious office professions, holding more purchasing power in trendy, luxurious goods.

The Autumn of Nations led towards the withdrawal of Soviet troops at the conclusion of the Soviet-Afghan War, fall of the Berlin Wall, the Revolutions of 1989 and the end of Cold War. The era was characterized by the blend of conservative family values alongside a period of increased telecommunications, shift towards liberal market economies and the new openness of perestroika and glasnost. This transitional passage also saw massive democratic revolutions such as the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 in China, the Czechoslovak velvet revolution, and the overthrow of the dictatorial regime in Romania and other communist Warsaw Pact states in Central and Eastern Europe. These changes continued to be felt in the 1990s and on into the 21st century.

The 1980s was also an era of tremendous population growth around the world, comparable only to the 1970s or 1990s to being among the largest in human history. This growth occurred not only in developing regions but also developed western nations, where many newborns were the offspring of the largely populated baby boomers.

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Popular culture

The most prominent events and trends in popular culture of the decade include:

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Music

With releases such as Computer World (1981) by Kraftwerk, the decade saw the emergence of new wave, electronic music (e.g., synthpop) the use of the synthesizer, and the introduction of hip hop and sampling.

The decade began with a backlash against disco music and a movement away from the orchestral arrangements that had characterized much of the music of the 1970s. Music in the 1980s was characterized by electronic sounds accomplished through the use of synthesizers and keyboards, along with drum machines. The music channel MTV began the trend of the music video. The first video to be aired on MTV was Buggles's "Video Killed The Radio Star".

The 1980s saw two new developments, the demise of disco the rise of electronic dance music.

By the late 1970s many major US cities had thriving disco club scenes which were centered around discothèques, nightclubs, and private loft parties where DJs would play disco hits through powerful PA systems for the dancers. Some of the most prestigious clubs had elaborate lighting systems that throbbed to the beat of the music.

The largest world cities like New York (Paradise Garage, The Loft), Manchester (The Haçienda), Paris (Les Bains Douches), Ibiza (Pacha), Antwerp (Ancienne Belgique) played a significant role in the evolution of clubbing, DJ culture and nightlife.

New genres included new wave, synth-pop, hip hop, house, acid house, techno, rave, freestyle, electro, eurodisco, italo disco, hi-nrg, balearic, jazz-funk, post-disco, northern soul and 80s groove

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Film

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During the 1980s, audiences began increasingly watching films on their home VCRs. In the early part of that decade, the film studios tried legal action to ban home ownership of VCRs as a violation of copyright, which proved unsuccessful. Eventually, the sale and rental of films on home video became a significant "second venue" for exhibition of films, and an additional source of revenue for the film industries. Direct-to-video (niche) markets usually offered lower quality, cheap productions that were not deemed very suitable for the general audiences of television and theatrical releases.

The Lucas–Spielberg combine would dominate "Hollywood" cinema for much of the 1980s, and lead to much imitation. Two follow-ups to Star Wars, three to Jaws, and three Indiana Jones films helped to make sequels of successful films more of an expectation than ever before. Lucas also launched THX Ltd, a division of Lucasfilm in 1982, while Spielberg enjoyed one of the decade's greatest successes in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial the same year. 1982 also saw the release of Disney's Tron which was one of the first films from a major studio to use computer graphics extensively. American independent cinema struggled more during the decade, although Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull (1980), After Hours (1985), and The King of Comedy (1983) helped to establish him as one of the most critically acclaimed American film makers of the era. Also during 1983 Scarface was released, which was very profitable and resulted in even greater fame for its leading actor Al Pacino. Probably the most successful film commercially was Tim Burton's 1989 version of Bob Kane's creation, Batman, which broke box-office records. Jack Nicholson's portrayal of the demented Joker earned him a total of $60,000,000 after figuring in his percentage of the gross.

British cinema was given a boost during the early 1980s by the arrival of David Puttnam's company Goldcrest Films. The films Chariots of Fire, Gandhi, The Killing Fields and A Room with a View appealed to a "middlebrow" audience which was increasingly being ignored by the major Hollywood studios. While the films of the 1970s had helped to define modern blockbuster motion pictures, the way "Hollywood" released its films would now change. Films, for the most part, would premiere in a wider number of theatres, although, to this day, some films still premiere using the route of the limited/roadshow release system. Against some expectations, the rise of the multiplex cinema did not allow less mainstream films to be shown, but simply allowed the major blockbusters to be given an even greater number of screenings. However, films that had been overlooked in cinemas were increasingly being given a second chance on home video.

During the 1980s, Japanese cinema experienced a revival, largely due to the success of anime films. The most famous anime film of this decade was Katsuhiro Otomo's cyberpunk film Akira (1988), which although initially unsuccessful at Japanese theaters, went on to become an international success.

Hong Kong action cinema, which was in a state of decline due to endless Bruceploitation films after the death of Bruce Lee, also experienced a revival in the 1980s, largely due to the reinvention of the action film genre by Jackie Chan. He had previously combined the comedy film and martial arts film genres successfully in the 1978 films Snake in the Eagle's Shadow and Drunken Master.

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Television

MTV was launched in the United States in 1981 and Teletext was introduced.

The 1980s was the decade of transformation in television. Cable television became more accessible and therefore, more popular. By the middle of the decade, almost 70% of the American population had cable television and over 85% were paying for cable services such as HBO or Showtime.

The 1980s was also the period of glory for primetime soap operas such as Dallas and Dynasty.

The popular animated sitcom The Simpsons debuted in 1989. There were also the TV talk shows that were increasing in popularity and some of the most viewed were the ones hosted by Geraldo Rivera or David Letterman.

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Video gaming

The 1980s starts the age of the video game. Popular video games include Pac-Man, Super Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong. Handheld Game Boy introduced into the youth market segment.

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Fashion

  • The kitsch of the 1970s, while itself rejected, influenced the fashion of the 1980s – in the beginning of the decade marked by the New Romantic movement and later by fashion inspired by heavy metal bands, including teased hair, ripped jeans and neon clothing.

Significant fashion trends of the 1980s include:

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Miscellaneous

  • BMX bicycles gained popularity amongst the youth in the early 1980s.
  • The Yo-yo gained popularity amongst the youth in the beginning of the decade as well.
  • Fast food chain restaurants such as McDonald's and Burger King experienced a strong increase circulation.
  • Rubik's cube became a popular fad throughout the decade.
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