American Stranger: Modernisms, Hollywood, and the Cinema of Nicholas Ray

by Will Scheibel

How does cinema culture imagine one of its favorite figures, the rebel? The reputation of the American director Nicholas Ray provides a particularly notable example. Most famous for Rebel Without a Cause, Ray has since been canonized as a "rebel auteur" and celebrated for seeking a personal vision and signature style under the industrial pressures of Classical Hollywood during its late studio period. In American Stranger, Will Scheibel...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438464126
• ISBN13: 9781438464121
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"