The Breakfast Club: John Hughes, Hollywood, and the Golden Age of the Teen Film Contributor(s): Nelson, Elissa (Author) |
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ISBN: 0367788071 ISBN-13: 9780367788070 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2021 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies - Performing Arts | Film - General |
Dewey: 791.436 |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.3" W x 8.4" (0.35 lbs) 116 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The Breakfast Club is a quintessential teen film. This book analyzes how multiple factors coalesced to solidify the status of The Breakfast Club as one of the most emblematic films of the 1980s and one of the most definitive teen films of the genre. The film brings together genre-defining elements - the conflicts between generations and peer pressure, archetypical characters and breaking down stereotypes, the celebration and survival of adolescence, and the importance of this time in life on the coming-of-age process - and became a significant moment for John Hughes as an auteur and for teen films in the 1980s. More than just embodying these elements of the genre, filmmaker Hughes and the Brat Pack stars helped introduce and popularize multiple generic features that would come to be expected with the teen film formula. The content of the film combined with its context of production in the middle of a boom in teen filmmaking in Hollywood. Meanwhile, the marketing that focused on contemporary music, peer group dynamics, and oppositions between Generation X and baby boomers, merged with an enthusiastic reception by youth audiences. Its endurance speaks to the way the film's level of importance as a critical, commercial, and influential film with tremendous impact has grown since its initial debut. |