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Lonely places, dangerous ground : Nicholas Ray in American cinema / edited and with an introduction by Steven Rybin and Will Scheibel.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- SUNY series, horizons of cinema.
- The SUNY series, horizons of cinema
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion picture producers and directors--United States.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- Ray, Nicholas, 1911-1979--Criticism and interpretation.
- Ray, Nicholas.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (314 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Examines the director's place in the history of Hollywood and the institution of cinema"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Figures""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Nicholas Ray and the Potential of Cinema Culture""; ""Note""; ""1. Looking for Nicholas Ray""; ""Note""; ""2. Nicholas Ray: The Breadth of Modern Gesture""; ""3. Economies of Desire: Reimagining Noir in They Live by Night""; ""Accidents of Release: They Live by Night's Production History""; ""Hope and the Economy of Desire in They Live by Night""; ""Note""; ""4. Knock on Any Door: Realist Form and Popularized Social Science""; ""Notes""; ""5. I've Got the Queerest Feeling' about A Woman's Secret and Born to Be Bad""
- ""Notes""""6. Something More than Noir""; ""Showdown at the Fantasy Factory""; ""Auteur et Noir""; ""7. On Dangerous Ground: Of Outsiders""; ""Rebels without Causes""; ""A Shallow and Uneven Affair?""; ""8. Flying Leathernecks: Color and Characterization""; ""History, Ideology, and Cultural Contradictions""; ""Color and Characterization""; ""Notes""; ""9. The Lusty Men and the Post-Western""; ""Notes""; ""10. Citizen Nick: Civic Engagement and Folk Culture in the Life and Work of Nicholas Ray""; ""Notes""; ""11. A Teacup and a Kiss: Staging Action in Johnny Guitar""; ""A Teacup""; ""A Kiss""
- ""12. You Can't Be a Rebel If You Grin: Masculinity, Performance, and Anxiety in 1950's Rock-and-Roll and the Films of Nicholas Ray""""Specters of Tomorrow along Nicholas Ray's Lost Highway""; ""Robert Ryan's Cold Night of the Soul and the Rockabilly Roundup""; ""I'm Stranger Here Myself: Johnny Guitar and the Delicate Beauty of Blue Moon Boys""; ""13. Places and Spaces in Rebel Without a Cause""; ""Positions on Rebel's Spaces""; ""Note""; ""14. Nicholas Ray's Wilderness Films: Word, Law, and Landscape""; ""High Green Wall""; ""Bitter Victory""
- ""Wind Across the Everglades""""The Savage Innocents""; ""Notes""; ""15. Bigger Than Life: Melodrama, Masculinity, and the American Dream""; ""Melodramatizing the Male""; ""The Social Problem of Bigger Than Life""; ""Notes""; ""16. Ray, Widescreen, and Genre: The True Story of Jesse James""; ""A Few Words on Widescreen Criticism""; ""A Few Words about Authorship""; ""Notes""; ""17. Disequilibrium, or: Love Interest (On Party Girl)""; ""18. King of Kings and the Politics of Masculinity in the Cold War Biblical Epic""; ""From Atonement to Incarnation""; ""From Incarnation to Anxiety""
- ""Circulation and Response""""19. As Surely as a Criminal Would Die: Nicholas Ray's The Doctor and the Devils""; ""Notes""; ""20. The Pedagogical Aesthetics of We Can't Go Home Again""; ""Note""; ""Postscript: The Class: Interview with Nicholas Ray""; ""Nick Ray Interview""; ""Nicholas Ray: Chronological Filmography""; ""Works Cited""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781438449821
- 1438449828
- OCLC:
- 870443091
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