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American Stranger

Modernisms, Hollywood, and the Cinema of Nicholas Ray

By: Will Scheibel

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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 reconstructs how Ray's reputation developed over time, analyzing the different historical practices of modernism that set new horizons for artistic rebellion in postwar cinema. Drawing on biographical legends, interviews, film reviews, articles in both national newspapers and international film magazines, and star promotion and publicity, Scheibel examines the contexts in which Ray's reputation was constructed. These include the consolidation of director-based film criticism and the rise of film studies as an academic discipline; star performances and personifications of the rebel male in Ray's films; the counterculture in which Ray promoted himself as a teacher and worked as a political avant-gardist; and the art cinemas of Jean-Luc Godard, Wim Wenders, and Jim Jarmusch, each of whom were influenced by Ray. In addition to Rebel Without a Cause, Scheibel also analyzes such classic films as The Lusty Men and In a Lonely Place, as well as collaborative, less-examined films from his later career outside of Hollywood, We Can't Go Home Again and Lightning Over Water. Reconstructing the evolution of Ray's place in cinema culture, this intellectual history measures the standards for both rebellion and convention, for the vanguard and the establishment, that determine an artistic reputation.

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State University of New York Press

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1438464134

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Gene Tierney

Star of Hollywood's Home Front

By: Will Scheibel

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Gene Tierney

Star of Hollywood's Home Front

By: Will Scheibel

Hollywood’s Gene Tierney, the lasting impact of her wartime and postwar films, and her continuing legacy. Gene Tierney may be one of the most recognizable faces of studio-era Hollywood: she starred in numerous classics, including Leave Her to Heaven, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir,and Laura,with the latter featuring her most iconic role. While Tierney was considered one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood, she personified "ordinariness" both on- and off-screen. Tierney portrayed roles such as a pinup type, a wartime worker, a wife, a mother, and, finally, a psychiatric patient—the last of which may have hit close to home for her, as she would soon leave Hollywood to pursue treatment for mental illness and later attempted suicide in the 1950s. After her release from psychiatric clinics, Tierney sought a comeback as one of the first stars whose treatment for mental illness became public knowledge. In this book, Will Scheibel not only examines her promotion, publicity, and reception as a star but also offers an alternative history of the United States wartime efforts demonstrated through the arc of Tierney's career as a star working on the home front. Scheibel's analysis aims to showcase that Tierney was more than just "the most beautiful woman in movie history," as stated by the head of production at Twentieth Century Fox in the 1940s and 1950s. He does this through an examination of her making, unmaking, and remaking at Twentieth Century Fox, rediscovering what she means as a movie legend both in past and up to the present. Film studies scholars, film students, and those interested in Hollywood history and the legacy of Gene Tierney will be delighted by this read.

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Wayne State University Press

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081434822X

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American Stranger

Modernisms, Hollywood, and the Cinema of Nicholas Ray

By: Will Scheibel

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Modernisms, Hollywood, and the Cinema of Nicholas Ray

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Twin Peaks

By: Julie Grossman,Will Scheibel

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Twin Peaks

By: Julie Grossman,Will Scheibel

Examines Twin Peaks’s history and representations of female trauma and agency. Julie Grossman and Will Scheibel's enthusiastic book on the television series Twin Peakstakes fans through the world that Mark Frost and David Lynch created and examines its impact on society, genre, and the television industry. Grossman and Scheibel explore the influences of melodrama and film noir, the significance around the idea of "home," as well as female trauma and agency. In addition to this close investigation of the series itself, the authors examine the rich storytelling surrounding Twin Peaks that includes the film prequel, Mark Frost's novels, and Showtime's 2017 revival. In Twin Peaks, Grossman and Scheibel argue that the show has transcended conventional binaries not only in film and television but also in culture and gender. The book begins with a look into the publicity and critical discourses on authorship that framed Twin Peaks as an auteurist project rather than a prime-time soap opera. Despite critics' attempts to distance the series from the soap opera genre, Grossman and Scheibel explore how melodrama and noir are used in Twin Peaks. Grossman and Scheibel masterfully examine star performances in the series including Kyle MacLachlan's epic portrayal as the idiosyncratic Special Agent Dale Cooper and Sheryl Lee's haunting embodiment of Laura Palmer. The monograph finishes with an examination of the adaptation and remediation of Twin Peaksin a variety of different platforms, which have further expanded the boundaries of the series. Twin Peaksexplores the ways in which the series critiques multiple forms of objectification in culture and textuality. Readers interested in film, television, pop culture, and gender studies as well as fans and new audiences discovering Twin Peaks will embrace this book.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814346235

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Ramsey's Badge

By: Will McLennan

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Ramsey's Badge

By: Will McLennan

Kyle Ramsey doesn't see anything worth sticking around for in the town of Plentiful, until he meets a strong-willed, pretty lady by the name of Tucker. Next thing Kyle knows, he's got a badge pinned on him, desperately riding into the heart of the Roberts gang to save Tucker.

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Berkley

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0515103500

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9780515103502

Gene Tierney

Star of Hollywood's Home Front

By: Will Scheibel

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Star of Hollywood's Home Front

By: Will Scheibel

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Twin Peaks

By: Julie Grossman,Will Scheibel

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By: Julie Grossman,Will Scheibel

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Wayne State University Press

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Will Self's Collected Fiction

Volume II

By: Will Self

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Will Self's Collected Fiction

Volume II

By: Will Self

Titles included in this collection include: Umbrella Walking to Hollywood The Butt Dr Mukti and other Tales of Woe How the Dead Live Tough Tough Toys for Tough Tough Boys

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2096

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1408865394

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9781408865392

Will Self's Collected Fiction

Volume I

By: Will Self

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Will Self's Collected Fiction

Volume I

By: Will Self

From the Booker-shortlisted author of Shark and it's acclaimed prequel Umbrella Titles include: The Quantity Theory of Psychosis Cock & Bull My Idea of Fun Grey Area Great Apes The Sweet Smell of Psychosis

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1636

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1408862050

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9781408862056

The Will Rogers Scrapbook

By: Will Rogers

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The Will Rogers Scrapbook

By: Will Rogers

A nostalgic return to Will Roger's America. Plus 100 photographs and exclusive interviews with some of Rogers' famous friends ... Wild-West shows and vaudeville, Hollywood, the silent movies and "talkies" and ... politics"--Jacket.

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0448123592

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