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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Freeman, Hadley.
Title: Life moves pretty fast : the lessons we learned from eighties movies (and why we don’t learn them from movies anymore) / Hadley Freeman.
Description: First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition. | New York :
Simon & Schuster, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015048387 (print) | LCCN 2016000145 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Motion pictures—United States—History—20th century. |
Motion pictures—Social aspects—United States—History—20th century. |
BISAC: PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism. | BIOGRAPHY &
AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. | HISTORY / North America.
Classification: LCC PN1993.5.U6 F75 2016 (print) | LCC PN1993.5.U6 (ebook) |
DDC 791.430973/09048—dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015048387
ISBN 978-1-5011-3045-8
ISBN 978-1-5011-3066-3 (ebook)