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Assesses the layered meanings and persistent global legacy of an American film classic.
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.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Rebel Without a Cause, Fifty Years Later
J. David Slocum
1. Story into Script
Nicholas Ray
2. Stark Performance
Murray Pomerance
3. "You want a good crack in the mouth?": Rebel Without a Cause, Violence, and the Cinema of Nicholas Ray
Susan White
4. Growing Up Male in Jim's Mom's World
Jon Lewis
5. Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without a Cause
George M. Wilson
6. Jim Stark's "Barbaric Yawp": Rebel Without a Cause and the Cold War Crisis in Masculinity
Jon Mitchell
7. "Armageddon Without a Cause": Playing "Chicken" in the Atomic Age
Mick Broderick
8. Youth, Moral Panics, and the End of Cinema: On the Reception of Rebel Without a Cause in Europe
Daniel Biltereyst
9. Rebellion and Citizenship: Hannah Arendt, Jim Stark, and American Public Life in the 1950s
Elena Loizidou
10. Youth Cinema and the Culture of Rebellion: Heathers and the Rebel Archetype
James C. McKelly
11. The Stark Screen Teen: Echoes of James Dean in Recent Young Rebel Roles
Timothy Shary
12. In the Shadow of Rebel Without a Cause: The Postcolonial Rebel
Claudia Springer
Cast and Production Credits
Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
SUNY Series, Horizons of Cinema