Rebel without a cause: approaches to a maverick masterwork

Rebel Without a Cause......Page 2
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction: Rebel Without a Cause, Fifty Years Later J. DAVID SLOCUM......Page 14
1. Story into Script NICHOLAS RAY......Page 38
2. Stark Performance MURRAY POMERANCE......Page 48
3. “You want a good crack in the mouth?” Rebel Without a Cause, Violence, and the Cinema of Nicholas Ray SUSAN WHITE......Page 66
4. Growing Up Male in Jim’s Mom’s World JON LEWIS......Page 102
5. Nicholas Ray’s Rebel Without a Cause GEORGE M. WILSON......Page 122
6. Jim Stark’s “Barbaric Yawp”: Rebel Without a Cause and the Cold War Crisis in Masculinity JOHN MITCHELL......Page 144
7. “Armageddon Without a Cause”: Playing “Chicken” in the Atomic Age MICK BRODERICK......Page 162
8. Youth, Moral Panics, and the End of Cinema: On the Reception of Rebel Without a Cause in Europe DANIEL BILTEREYST......Page 184
9. Rebellion and Citizenship: Hannah Arendt, Jim Stark, and American Public Life in the 1950s ELENA LOIZIDOU......Page 204
10. Youth Cinema and the Culture of Rebellion: Heathers and the Rebel Archetype JAMES C. McKELLY......Page 222
11. The Stark Screen Teen: Echoes of James Dean in Recent Young Rebel Roles TIMOTHY SHARY......Page 230
12. In the Shadow of Rebel Without a Cause: The Postcolonial Rebel CLAUDIA SPRINGER......Page 242
Cast and Production Credits......Page 266
Selected Bibliography......Page 270
Contributors......Page 272
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C......Page 277
E......Page 278
G......Page 279
J......Page 280
M......Page 281
N......Page 282
R......Page 283
S......Page 284
U......Page 285
Z......Page 286