| Rebel Without a Cause: Approaches to a Maverick Masterwork Contributor(s): Slocum, J. David (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0791466450 ISBN-13: 9780791466452 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism |
| Dewey: 791.437 |
| LCCN: 2005007110 |
| Series: Horizons of Cinema |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (1.09 lbs) 273 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |