Rebel Without a Cause
eBook - PDF

Rebel Without a Cause

Approaches to a Maverick Masterwork

  1. 269 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Rebel Without a Cause

Approaches to a Maverick Masterwork

About this book

Five decades after the production and initial release of Rebel Without a Cause, this book examines both the complicated historical moment in which the film was made as well as its continuing and pervasive influence on film today. The contributors track how the film continues to speak to diverse audiences as a touchstone for imagined anxieties over adolescence and coming-of-age, traditional values of family and community, threats from abroad, and the provocations of mass or consumer society. Although the specific sources and motivations for rebellion have shifted, what has persisted is the film's singular power to represent rebellion in what could otherwise be seen as the everyday, and to move viewers to ponder its causes.

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Table of contents

  1. Rebel Without a Cause
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction: Rebel Without a Cause, Fifty Years Later J. DAVID SLOCUM
  5. 1. Story into Script NICHOLAS RAY
  6. 2. Stark Performance MURRAY POMERANCE
  7. 3. “You want a good crack in the mouth?” Rebel Without a Cause, Violence, and the Cinema of Nicholas Ray SUSAN WHITE
  8. 4. Growing Up Male in Jim’s Mom’s World JON LEWIS
  9. 5. Nicholas Ray’s Rebel Without a Cause GEORGE M. WILSON
  10. 6. Jim Stark’s “Barbaric Yawp”: Rebel Without a Cause and the Cold War Crisis in Masculinity JOHN MITCHELL
  11. 7. “Armageddon Without a Cause”: Playing “Chicken” in the Atomic Age MICK BRODERICK
  12. 8. Youth, Moral Panics, and the End of Cinema: On the Reception of Rebel Without a Cause in Europe DANIEL BILTEREYST
  13. 9. Rebellion and Citizenship: Hannah Arendt, Jim Stark, and American Public Life in the 1950s ELENA LOIZIDOU
  14. 10. Youth Cinema and the Culture of Rebellion: Heathers and the Rebel Archetype JAMES C. McKELLY
  15. 11. The Stark Screen Teen: Echoes of James Dean in Recent Young Rebel Roles TIMOTHY SHARY
  16. 12. In the Shadow of Rebel Without a Cause: The Postcolonial Rebel CLAUDIA SPRINGER
  17. Cast and Production Credits
  18. Selected Bibliography
  19. Contributors
  20. Index