Rebel Without a Cause
Using Film to Teach about Dating in the 1950s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12129753 |
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| Authors | Mirta Goldberg (corresponding author), M L Goldberg |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 38-42 |
| Publication date | 2004-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | OAH Magazine of History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0882-228X • E-ISSN: 1938-2340 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/maghis/18.4.38 |
| OpenAlex | W1996718524 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
The two teenagers sit together in the darkened theater, a tub of popcorn strategically lodged between them in a no-man's/woman's land of aching desire and uncertainty. For their third date, they have decided to catch Rebel Without a Cause (1955), the new movie that everyone is talking about since its young star, James Dean, died in car crash on a California highway. They have just watched as “Jim,” James Dean, the “rebel without a cause” of the film's title, hurtles towards a cliff in a stolen car, narrowly escaping the fate on screen that befell him in real life. They stare up at the screen as Jim and Judy, Natalie Wood, two cra2y kids from “good” but thoroughly messed-up families, perform their own maneuvers in the dark. The scene is shot in close-up using a blurred and indistinct, increasing a sense of intimacy—or is it claustrophobia? Jim is in
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Cliff · Crash · Shot (pellet · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · History
| Highly cited | No |
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