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A range of approaches to the director's life and work.

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Author:   Steven Rybin ,  Will Scheibel
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438449807

ISBN 10:   1438449801
Pages:   314
Publication Date:   02 January 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Nicholas Ray and the Potential of Cinema Culture Steven Rybin and Will Scheibel 1. Looking for Nicholas Ray Jonathan Rosenbaum 2. Nicholas Ray: The Breadth of Modern Gesture Joe McElhaney 3. Economies of Desire: Reimagining Noir in They Live by Night Ria Banerjee 4. Knock on Any Door: Realist Form and Popularized Social Science Chris Cagle 5. ""I've Got the Queerest Feeling"" about A Woman's Secret and Born to Be Bad Alexander Doty 6. Something More than Noir Steven Sanders 7. On Dangerous Ground: Of Outsiders R. Barton Palmer 8. Flying Leatherneacks: Colors and Characterization Tony Williams 9. The Lusty Men and the Post-Western Neil Campbell 10. Citizen Nick: Civic Engagement and Folk Culture in the Life and Work of Nicholas Ray James I. Deutsch and Lauren R. Shaw 11. A Teacup and a Kiss: Staging Action in Johnny Guitar Murray Pomerance 12. ""You Can't Be a Rebel If You Grin"": Masculinity, Performance, and Anxiety in 1950s Rock-and-Roll and the Films of Nicholas Ray Paul Anthony Johnson 13. Places and Spaces in Rebel Without a Cause Robin A. Larsen 14. Nicholas Ray's Wilderness Films: Word, Law, and Landscape Susan White 15. Bigger Than Life: Masculinity, Melodrama, and the American Dream Will Scheibel 16. Ray, Widescreen, and Genre: The True Story of Jesse James Harper Cossar 17. Disequilibrium, or: Love Interest (On Party Girl) Adrian Martin 18. King of Kings and the Politics of Masculinity in the Cold War Biblical Epic Jason McKahan 19. ""As Surely as a Criminal Would Die"": Nicholas Ray's The Doctor and the Devils Larysa Smirnova and Chris Fujiwara 20. The Pedagogical Aesthetics of We Can't Go Home Again Steven Rybin Postscript: The Class: Interview with Nicholas Ray Bill Krohn Nicholas Ray: Chronological Filmography Works Cited Contributors Index"

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...solid essays ... The selection of essays (20 in all) is remarkable ... This is a successful, useful resource. - CHOICE

"""...solid essays ... The selection of essays (20 in all) is remarkable ... This is a successful, useful resource."" - CHOICE"

Author Information

Steven Rybin is Assistant Professor of Film at Georgia Gwinnett College. He is the author of Michael Mann: Crime Auteur; Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film; and The Cinema of Michael Mann. Will Scheibel is a PhD candidate in film and media studies at Indiana University Bloomington.

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