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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Chard, Holly

Titel

CONCLUSION: Mainstream Maverick?

Ist Teil von

• Mainstream Maverick, 2020, p.215-232

Ort / Verlag

United States: University of Texas Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In his 1992 review of the video release of Curly Sue, Ty Burr, Entertainment Weekly’s film critic, summed up the image that Hughes had managed to develop in the trade and mainstream presses. From the mid-1980s through the mid-1990s, Hughes was one of the most powerful filmmakers in Hollywood, despite apparently harboring “a marked antipathy toward official Hollywood.”¹ He was clearly not a maverick in the conventional sense, however. Popular criticism has often celebrated “maverick” or “rebel” filmmakers whose work is somehow “antimainstream” or who allegedly refuse to yield to corporate pressure during the creative process.² Hughes’s immense success as