ReFocus: The Films of John Hughes

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1474449042
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9781474449045
• Author: Timothy Shary

The films of John Hughes (1950–2009) have enjoyed popular and critical success alike, from his first scripts in the early 1980s through to his celebrated work later in the decade and into the 1990s. While Hughes is best remembered for his stories about teenagers, such as Sixteen Candles (1984), The Breakfast Club (1985) and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986), almost all of his films deal with comical conflicts within everyday American families. He directed eight films and wrote over thirty in a career spanning a quarter of a century, and is fondly remembered for influencing American perceptions of – and appreciation for – the daily lives of (primarily) common citizens.

Table contents:

1. Introduction – Timothy Shary and Frances Smith

Part I: Hughes in the Industry

2. John Hughes as Auteur: History, Hagiography, Historiography – Elissa H. Nelson

3. “Becoming John Hughes”: Regional Production, Hyphenate Filmmaking, and Independence Within Hollywood – Yannis Tzioumakis

4. Ferris Bueller vs. Parker Lewis: “Adapting” Ferris Bueller’s Day Off for Television – Stephen Tropiano

Part II: Reconsidering Youth

5. “Life moves pretty fast”: Mobility, Power, and Aesthetics in John Hughes’s Teen Films – Christina G. Petersen

6. “When Cameron Was in Egypt’s Land”: The Queer Child of Neglect in John Hughes’s Films – Barbara Jane Brickman

7. We Need to Talk about Kevin McCallister: John Hughes’s Careless Parents and Abandoned Children – Melissa Oliver-Powell

Part III: Family and Fatherhood

8. Brand Name Vision: Props in the Films of John Hughes – Leah R. Shafer

9. Domesticating the Comedian: Comic Performance, Narrative, and the Family in John Hughes’s 1980s Comedian Films – Holly Chard

10. Fatherhood and the Failures of Paternal Authority in the Films of John Hughes – Alice Leppert

Part IV: Contested Identities

11. Bizarre Love Triangle: Frankensteinian Masculinities in Weird Science – Andrew Scahill

12. “You look good wearing my future:” Social Class and Individualism in the 1980s Teen Films of John Hughes – Robert C. Bulman

13. The Unbearable Whiteness of Being in a John Hughes Movie – Frances Smith

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