Rebel Without a Cause : Approaches to a Maverick Masterwork

by Slocum, J. David

• ISBN13: 9780791466452
• ISBN10: 0791466450
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-29
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Rebel Without a Cause, Fifty Years Later	p. 1
Story into Script	p. 25
Stark Performance	p. 35
"You want a good crack in the mouth?": Rebel Without a Cause, Violence, and the Cinema of Nicholas Ray	p. 53
Growing Up Male in Jim's Mom's World	p. 89
Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without a Cause	p. 109
Jim Stark's "Barbaric Yawp": Rebel Without a Cause and the Cold War Crisis in Masculinity	p. 131
"Armageddon Without a Cause": Playing "Chicken" in the Atomic Age	p. 149
Youth, Moral Panics, and the End of Cinema: On the Reception of Rebel Without a Cause in Europe	p. 171
Rebellion and Citizenship: Hannah Arendt, Jim Stark, and American Public Life in the 1950s	p. 191
Youth Cinema and the Culture of Rebellion: Heathers and the Rebel Archetype	p. 209
The Stark Screen Teen: Echoes of James Dean in Recent Young Rebel Roles	p. 217
In the Shadow of Rebel Without a Cause: The Postcolonial Rebel	p. 229
Cast and Production Credits	p. 253
Selected Bibliography	p. 257
List of Contributors	p. 259
Index	p. 263
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