Refocus: The Films of John Hughes

ISBN-13: 9781474449038 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

SHARY TIMOTHY

Spis treści

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Film and Television Work by John Hughes

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

Bibliography
Appendix: Other Films and Television Shows Cited in this Collection
Index