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Related: 1970s
By medium: 1978 films - 1978 music
Films: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) - Piranha (1978) - Pretty Baby (1978) - more 1978 films ...
Music: By 1978, punk and disco had divided the pop audience.
Requiem for a Dream (1978) - Hubert Selby Jr.
[Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK] [...]In 2000 Darren Aronofsky adapted Hubert Selby Jr.'s 1978 cult classic Requiem for a Dream as Requiem for a Dream.
The Stand (1978) - Stephen King
[Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK] [...]Stephen King says of The Stand, the greatest allegory of good vs evil since Heart of Darkness: "I love to burn things up," . "It's the werewolf in me, I guess.... The Stand was particularly fulfilling, because there I got a chance to scrub the whole human race, and man, it was fun! ... Much of the compulsive, driven feeling I had while I worked on The Stand came from the vicarious thrill of imagining an entire entrenched social order destroyed in one stroke."
Deaths: Roger Caillois - Ed Wood, Jr. - Jacques Brel - Hannah Höch - Giorgio de Chirico
Musical debuts: Push, Push In The Bush (1978) - Musique - Telex - Disco Circus (1978) - Martin Circus - more 1978 music ...
Non-fiction: Freaks: Myths and images of the secret self (1978) - Leslie A Fiedler