Holly Chard, Mainstream Maverick: John Hughes and New Hollywood Cinema

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Holly Chard, Mainstream Maverick: John Hughes and New Hollywood Cinema. University of Texas Press, Austin. 2020. Pp. 273. ISBN 978-1-4773-2129-4 Author: Melenia Arouh, The American College of Greece, Deree College Holly Chard’s monograph Mainstream Maverick: John Hughes and New Hollywood Cinema is an insightful study of Hughes’s cinematic oeuvre. The “mainstream maverick” of the title, as first used by film critic Ty Burr, accurately signals the anomaly that Hughes poses in film discourse. Jo...