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 Slocum

1. Story into Script
Nicholas Ray

2. Stark Performance
Murray Pomerance

3. "You want a good crack in the mouth?": Rebel Without a Cause, Violence, and the Cinema of Nicholas Ray
Susan White

4. Growing Up Male in Jim's Mom's World
Jon Lewis

5. Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without a Cause
George M. Wilson

6. Jim Stark's "Barbaric Yawp": Rebel Without a Cause and the Cold War Crisis in Masculinity
Jon Mitchell

7. "Armageddon Without a Cause": Playing "Chicken" in the Atomic Age
Mick Broderick

8. Youth, Moral Panics, and the End of Cinema: On the Reception of Rebel Without a Cause in Europe
Daniel Biltereyst
9. Rebellion and Citizenship: Hannah Arendt, Jim Stark, and American Public Life in the 1950s
Elena Loizidou
10. Youth Cinema and the Culture of Rebellion: Heathers and the Rebel Archetype
James C. McKelly
11. The Stark Screen Teen: Echoes of James Dean in Recent Young Rebel Roles
Timothy Shary
12. In the Shadow of Rebel Without a Cause: The Postcolonial Rebel
Claudia Springer
Cast and Production Credits
Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
SUNY Series, Horizons of Cinema