Nicholas Ray

Author : Patrick McGilligan
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 687 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062092342

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Nicholas Ray by Patrick McGilligan Pdf

Award-winningfilm historian Patrick McGilligan follows hisacclaimed biographies of Alfred Hitchcock and Oscar Micheauxwith a revelatory look at the life of Nicholas Ray, the troubled director of Ina Lonely Place, We Can’t GoHome Again, and Rebel Without a Cause. McGilligancharts the cerebral struggles, astonishing adventures, and artistic triumphsthat defined Ray’s life, including his Hollywood collaborations with HumphreyBogart, Robert Mitchum, James Cagney, and James Dean;his love affairs with Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, ZsaZsa Gabor, and Gloria Grahame; his partnerships withactivist Abbie Hoffman, pornography starlet MarilynChambers, photographer Wim Wenders;and more. Celebrating, contextualizing, and examining Ray’s life and work, McGilligandelivers a milestone of film history and offers a captivating look at one ofclassic cinema’s most colorful figures.

Author : Nicholas Ray
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520916678

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I Was Interrupted by Nicholas Ray Pdf

One of the most original, rebellious, and idiosyncratic directors in the American cinema, Nicholas Ray lived and worked with an intensity equal to that of his films. Best known for his direction of James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause (1955), he is also well regarded for his cult western Johnny Guitar (1954), and such prestigious noir classics as On Dangerous Ground (1951). I Was Interrupted offers a provocative selection of the filmmaker's writings, lectures, interviews, and more.

Author : Bernard Eisenschitz
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 0816676216

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Nicholas Ray by Bernard Eisenschitz Pdf

Originally published: London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1993.

Author : Steven Rybin,Will Scheibel
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781438449821

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Lonely Places, Dangerous Ground by Steven Rybin,Will Scheibel Pdf

The director of such classic Hollywood films as In a Lonely Place, Johnny Guitar, and Rebel Without a Cause, Nicholas Ray nevertheless remained on the margins of the American studio system throughout his career, and despite his cult status among auteurist critics and cinephiles, he has also remained at the margins of film scholarship. Lonely Places, Dangerous Ground offers twenty new essays by international film historians and critics that explore the director's place in the history of the Hollywood industry and in the larger institution of cinema, as well as a 1977 interview with Ray that has never before been published in its entirety in English. In addition to readings of Ray's most celebrated films, the book provides a range of approaches to his life and work, engaging new questions of his cinematic authorship with areas that include history and culture, politics and society, gender and sexuality, style and genre, performance, technology, and popular music. The collection also looks at Ray's lesser-known and underappreciated films, and devotes attention to the highly experimental We Can't Go Home Again, his recently restored final film made in the 1970s with his students at Binghamton University, State University of New York. Rediscovering what Ray means to contemporary film studies, the essays show how his films continue to possess a vital power for film history and criticism, and for film culture.

Author : Will Scheibel
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781438464138

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American Stranger by Will Scheibel Pdf

Author : Nicca Ray
Publisher : Three Rooms Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1941110878

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Ray by Ray by Nicca Ray Pdf

An essential new perspective on Nicholas Ray--legendary Hollywood director of Rebel Without a Cause--by his daughter and namesake Nicca, who examines her father's genius and demons, unraveling myths to illuminate who he really was, what drove him to create, and who, now, is Nicca Ray?

Author : Nicholas Ray
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134274710

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Architecture and its Ethical Dilemmas by Nicholas Ray Pdf

A cast of leading writers and practitioners tackle the ethical questions that architects are increasingly facing in their work, from practical considerations in construction to the wider social context of buildings, their appearance, use and place in the narrative of the environment. This book gives an account of these ethical questions from the perspectives of historical architectural practice, philosophy, and business, and examines the implications of such dilemmas. Taking the current discussion of ethics in architecture on to a new stage, this volume provides an accumulation of diverse opinions, focusing on architects' actions and products that materially affect the lives of people in all urbanized societies.

Author : Geoff Andrew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015061101559

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The Films of Nicholas Ray by Geoff Andrew Pdf

Films like In a Lonely Place, Johnny Guitar, They Live by Night, and most of all Rebel Without a Cause were to ensure cult status for Ray as one of the most revered of all American 'maverick' auteurs. This new edition of Geoff Andrew's unique and acclaimed study of his films discusses Ray's stylistic artistry and abiding thematic concerns, and his work with such legends as James Dean, Humphrey Bogart, James Mason, Joan Crawford and Richard Burton. Above all the book shows how the vivid emotional authenticity of his films, coupled with his special brand of visual expressionism and his eloquently voiced disenchantment with the American Dream, were in established for him a profoundly loyal following in America and Europe that lasts to this day. This new edition, which covers all of Ray's films, includes an updated introduction and fresh reflections on the enduring importance in the 21st century of one of the greatest directors to have worked in Hollywood.

Author : Nicholas Ray
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 3039105019

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Tragedy and Otherness by Nicholas Ray Pdf

This book presents a new account of the complex relationship between psychoanalytic theory and the key tragic dramas by Sophocles and Shakespeare in which it has often sought exemplars and prototypes. Examining the close historical and theoretical connections between Freud's interpretative appeal to tragic drama and his professed abandonment of the 'seduction' hypothesis in 1897, the author explores the ways in which otherness has subsequently been simplified out of both psychoanalytic theory and the dramatic texts it endeavours to comprehend. Drawing on Jean Laplanche's critical reformulation of the seduction theory, the book offers close rereadings of Oedipus Tyrannus, Julius Caesar and Hamlet in order to outline an approach to tragedy which takes account of the constitutive priority of the other in the itinerary of the tragic subject. By reopening the theme of seduction in relation to these key literary dramas, the book aims to generate a better understanding both of the function which psychoanalysis has called upon tragedy to perform, and the radical modes of otherness within tragedy for which psychoanalysis has hitherto remained unable to account.

Author : Lawrence Frascella,Al Weisel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780743291187

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Live Fast, Die Young by Lawrence Frascella,Al Weisel Pdf

When it was released in 1955, the film Rebel Without a Cause had a revolutionary impact on moviemaking and youth culture, virtually giving birth to our concept of the American teenager. For the first time, Live Fast, Die Young tells the complete story of the explosive making of Rebel, a film that has rocked every generation since its release. Set against a backdrop of the Atomic Age and an old Hollywood studio system on the verge of collapse, it vividly evokes the cataclysmic, immensely influential meeting of four of Hollywood's most passionate artists. When James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, and director Nicholas Ray converged, each was at a crucial point in his or her career. The young actors were grappling with fame, their burgeoning sexuality, and increasingly reckless behavior. As Ray engaged his cast in physical melees and psychosexual seductions of startling intensity, the on- and off-set relationships between his ambitious young actors ignited, sending a shock wave through the film. Through interviews with the surviving members of the cast and crew and firsthand access to both personal and studio archives, Lawrence Frascella and Al Weisel reveal Rebel's true drama -- the director's affair with sixteen-year-old Wood, his tempestuous "spiritual marriage" with Dean, and his role in awakening the latent homosexuality of Mineo, who would become the first gay teenager to appear on film. Complete with thirty photographs, including ten never-before-seen photos by famed Dean photographer Dennis Stock, Live Fast, Die Young tells the absorbing inside story of an unforgettable and absolutely essential American film -- a story that is, in many ways, as provocative as the film itself.

Author : Frawley Becker
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0810851571

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And the Stars Spoke Back by Frawley Becker Pdf

Becker reminiscences about his work on the sets and in the dressing rooms of Hollywood personalities, providing glimpses into the private lives of a stellar array of actors and actresses. Besides these and other stars, Becker also discloses fascinating details of working with world-famous directors John Huston, William Wyler, Nicholas Ray, Anatole Litvak, René Clément, and Vittorio de Sica.

Author : Douglas L. Rathgeb
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0786419768

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The Making of Rebel Without a Cause by Douglas L. Rathgeb Pdf

This work is a complete history of this classic American film, from idea to script to film. In 1954, troubled director Nicholas Ray chatted at a dinner party about his controversial plan for a film about middle-class juvenile delinquents. He was told of a book, written by a prison psychologist and owned by Warner Bros., called Rebel Without a Cause. Unimpressed after reading it, Ray began writing his own story. Warner Bros. quickly bought it and hired Ray to direct the film. From the backgrounds of the many players to the pre-production, production, and post-production of the film, the work covers every aspect of Rebel Without a Cause from its rudiments to the 1955 Oscars: the selection of cast and crew, legal fights, preparatory research, changing screenwriters and the many variations of the story, location scouting, auditions, the writing of the score, script readings, difficulties with the censors, romances and fights, shot-by-shot analyses of the directing, editing, screenings, and, of course, its star's death. Dozens of intimate anecdotes fill the work with every detail from wardrobe decisions to James Dean's pranks to the Air Pollution Control Board's opposition to the final car crashes. An epilogue discusses the possible sequels, rights conflicts, documentaries, musicals, and spin-off attempts, and offers concluding words on the cast and crew. Sources include production records, publicity releases, scripts, newspapers, and discussions with Stewart Stern. An appendix offers two unpublished letters from Stewart Stern to Nicholas Ray and to Marcus and Ortense Winslow.

Author : John Francis Kreidl
Publisher : Boston : Twayne
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Rebel without a cause. [Motion picture].
ISBN : 0805792503

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Nicholas Ray by John Francis Kreidl Pdf

Author : Stefano Masi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3569682

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Nicholas Ray by Stefano Masi Pdf

Author : Louis Black,Collins Swords
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781477315446

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CinemaTexas Notes by Louis Black,Collins Swords Pdf

Austin’s thriving film culture, renowned for international events such as SXSW and the Austin Film Festival, extends back to the early 1970s when students in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin ran a film programming unit that screened movies for students and the public. Dubbed CinemaTexas, the program offered viewers a wide variety of films—old and new, mainstream, classic, and cult—at a time when finding and watching films after their first run was very difficult and prohibitively expensive. For each film, RTF graduate students wrote program notes that included production details, a sampling of critical reactions, and an original essay that placed the film and its director within context and explained the movie’s historical significance. Over time, CinemaTexas Program Notes became more ambitious and were distributed around the world, including to luminaries such as film critic Pauline Kael. This anthology gathers a sampling of CinemaTexas Program Notes, organized into four sections: “USA Film History,” “Hollywood Auteurs,” “Cinema-Fist: Renegade Talents,” and “America’s Shadow Cinema.” Many of the note writers have become prominent film studies scholars, as well as leading figures in the film, TV, music, and video game industries. As a collection, CinemaTexas Notes strongly contradicts the notion of an effortlessly formed American film canon, showing instead how local film cultures—whether in Austin, New York, or Europe—have forwarded the development of film studies as a discipline.