Rybin / Scheibel Lonely Places, Dangerous Ground

Nicholas Ray in American Cinema
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4384-4982-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rybin, Steven

Scheibel, Will

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.