jpFrom Gary Busey’s age-mismatched casting to invented radio stunts, omitted collaborators, and a sanitized ending, The Buddy Holly Story trades accuracy for dramatic convenience, reshaping Buddy Holly’s life into a more familiar Hollywood myth than the real story.
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Cinematic Distortion and the Myth of the Lone Rebel: A Media Studies Analysis of The Buddy Holly Story (1978)
Biographical cinema relies on a delicate contract of belief between the spectator and the screen. In The Buddy Holly Story (1978), this contract is strained by a fundamental chronological disconnec…
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