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.
| ISBN: | 9780791466469 |
| Publication date: | 15th November 2005 |
| Author: | J David Slocum |
| Publisher: | SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 288 pages |
| Series: | SUNY Series. |
| Genres: |
Popular culture Film history, theory or criticism Films, cinema |
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.
Rebel Without a Cause features in the following genres: Popular culture, Film history, theory or criticism, Films, cinema
Rebel Without a Cause is available in Paperback, Hardback
Rebel Without a Cause was written by J David Slocum and published by SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press
Rebel Without a Cause has 288 pages
Yes it is part of SUNY Series. series
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