A Righteously Awesome Eighties Christmas: Festive Cinema of the 1980s

The cinema of the festive season has blazed a trail through the world of film-making for more than a century, ranging from silent movies to the latest CGI features.

From the author of The Christmas Movie Book, this new text explores the different narrative themes that emerged in the genre over the course of the 1980s, considering the developments that have helped to make the Christmas films of that decade amongst the most fascinating and engaging motion pictures in the history of festive movie production.

Released against the backdrop of a turbulent and rapidly changing world, the Christmas films of the 1980s celebrated traditions and challenged assumptions in equal measure. With warm nostalgia colliding with aggressive modernity as never before, the eighties saw the movies of the holiday season being deconstructed and reconfigured to remain relevant in an age of cynicism and innovation.

Whether exploring comedy, drama, horror, or fantasy, Christmas cinema has an unparalleled capacity to attract and inspire audiences. With a discussion ranging from the best-known titles to some of the most obscure, A Righteously Awesome Eighties Christmas examines the ways in which the Christmas motion pictures of the 1980s fit into the wider context of this captivating and ever-evolving genre.

Author: Thomas A. Christie
Publisher: Extremis Publishing Ltd.
Published: 11/14/2016
Pages: 664
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 7.81h x 5.06w x 1.33d
ISBN: 9780993493232

About the Author
Christie, Thomas A.: - Dr. Thomas A. Christie is a Scottish author with research interests in popular culture, literary analysis, interactive fiction, and modern cinema. His books include John Hughes and Eighties Cinema: Teenage Hopes and American Dreams, The James Bond Movies of the 1980s, and Notional Identities: Ideology, Genre and National Identity in Popular Scottish Fiction Since the Seventies. Tom has many years of experience as a literary professional, working in collaboration with several publishing companies including Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Crescent Moon Publishing, and Robert Greene Publishing. His full-length works to date have focused on subjects such as cinema history and literary criticism, as well as the production of original prose fiction. A passionate advocate of the written word and literary arts, over the years Tom has produced original writing for respected organizations such as the Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum and the Dementia Services Development Centre, a leading independent higher education research unit based at the University of Stirling. Additionally, he is regularly involved in public speaking events and has delivered guest lectures and presentations about his work at many locations around the United Kingdom. Tom holds a Ph.D. in English Studies, on the subject of Scottish Literature, from the University of Stirling. He has also been awarded a first-class Honours degree in Literature and a Master's degree in Humanities, specializing with distinction in British cinema history, from the Open University in Milton Keynes. 

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