John Hughes and Eighties Cinema : Teenage Hopes and American Dreams

John Hughes is the acclaimed director of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink and many other classic movies of the 1980s. This book is the first full-length analysis of all of John Hughes's films throughout the 1980s; not only the features that he directed, but also those for which he provided the screenplay. By analysing these motion pictures and discussing their social and cultural significance in the wider context of the decade, Hughes's importance as a film-maker will be considered, and his prominent contribution to cinema assessed. The book concludes with a detailed analysis of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, a film which is considered to be among Hughes's most critically successful works and also one of his most structurally refined.