[Commlist] Mainstream Maverick: John Hughes and New Hollywood Cinema by Holly Chard

We would like to announce a new publication from the University of Texas 
Press, which we hope will be of interest.

*Mainstream Maverick***

John Hughes and New Hollywood Cinema

*Holly Chard***

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781477321294/mainstream-maverick/ 
<https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781477321294/mainstream-maverick/>_*

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In the 1980s and 1990s, John Hughes was one of Hollywood’s most reliable 
hitmakers, churning out beloved teen comedies and family films such as 
/The Breakfast Club/and /Home Alone/, respectively. But was he an 
artist? Hughes, an adamantly commercial filmmaker who was dismissed by 
critics, might have laughed at the question. Since his death in 2009, 
though, he has been memorialized on Oscar night as a key voice of his 
time. Now the critics lionize him as a stylistic original.*__*

Holly Chard traces Hughes’s evolution from entertainer to auteur. 
Studios recognized Hughes’s distinctiveness and responded by nurturing 
his brand. He is therefore a case study in Hollywood’s production not 
only of movies but also of genre and of authorship itself. The films of 
John Hughes, Chard shows, also owed their success to the marketers who 
sold them and the audiences who watched. Careful readings of Hughes’s 
cinema reveal both the sources of his iconic status and the imprint on 
his films of the social, political, economic, and media contexts in 
which he operated.*__*

The first serious treatment of Hughes, /Mainstream Maverick/elucidates 
the priorities of the American movie industry in the New Hollywood era 
and explores how artists not only create but are themselves created.*__*

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*Holly Chard*is a senior lecturer in contemporary screen media at the 
University of Brighton. She holds a PhD from the University of Sussex.*__*


*University of Texas Press**| September 2020 | 288pp | 9781477321294 | 
HB | £40.00**

*Price subject to change.

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