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Foreword; J.Thumim - Acknowledgements - Introduction - PART 1:SOCIETY/CULTURE/HISTORY: FAMILIES IN THE EIGHTIES - Britain in the Eighties -Hollywood Cinema in the Eighties - Family Representations: The Family inCrisis - PART 2: FILM FAMILIES: FAMILY FILMS - Family Fortunes: KeyRepresentational Paradigms - Backlash Patriarch or New Man? The Role of theFather - Absence and Loss: The Evacuation of the Mother - Look Who's Talking:Challenging Children and Parental Inversions - Family Dramas: The Family inE.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial - Conclusions and Futures: Stasis and Change -Appendices - Family Paradigms - Synopses of Selected Top Box Office HollywoodFilms: 1980-90 - Selection of Texts - Filmography - Bibliography - Index