Rebel Without a Cause

Approaches to a Maverick Masterwork

286 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Kultur- und Medienwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften Populäre Kultur
• ISBN: 9780791466469
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 27.09.2005
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: SUNY Press
• Herausgegeben von: J. David Slocum