Rebel Without a Cause

J. David Slocum is Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York University and is the editor of Violence and American Cinema.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Rebel Without a Cause, Fifty Years Later J. David Slocum1. Story into Script Nicholas Ray2. Stark Performance Murray Pomerance3. "You want a good crack in the mouth?": Rebel Without a Cause, Violence, and the Cinema of Nicholas Ray Susan White4. Growing Up Male in Jim's Mom's World Jon Lewis5. Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without a Cause George M. Wilson6. Jim Stark's "Barbaric Yawp": Rebel Without a Cause and the Cold War Crisis in Masculinity Jon Mitchell7. "Armageddon Without a Cause": Playing "Chicken" in the Atomic Age Mick Broderick8. Youth, Moral Panics, and the End of Cinema: On the Reception of Rebel Without a Cause in Europe Daniel Biltereyst9. Rebellion and Citizenship: Hannah Arendt, Jim Stark, and American Public Life in the 1950s Elena Loizidou10. Youth Cinema and the Culture of Rebellion: Heathers and the Rebel Archetype James C. McKelly11. The Stark Screen Teen: Echoes of James Dean in Recent Young Rebel Roles Timothy Shary12. In the Shadow of Rebel Without a Cause: The Postcolonial Rebel Claudia SpringerCast and Production Credits Selected Bibliography List of Contributors Index SUNY Series, Horizons of Cinema