--CALL FOR PAPERS--



Re-viewing REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE



I am seeking papers that take a fresh look at Nicholas Ray's 1955 film.



Possible topics include re-evaluation of the film and:

--Hollywood melodrama

--Ray's oeuvre

--Star discourse of James Dean (as well as that of Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo,

and Dennis Hopper)

--Teen market and youth culture

--Cold War concerns about families, suburbs, and juvenile delinquency

--Depictions and reception of violence

--The context of the shifting institutional and social status of Hollywood

in the mid-1950s

--Its status as both canonical and popular text



For those planning to attend the Society for Cinema Studies annual

conference in Washington, D.C. next May 24-27, I am assembling a panel at

which papers about the film could be presented.



As well, proposals for 20-25pp papers will also be considered for

publication in a handbook being prepared on the film.



Send 250-300 word proposals by September 15 to: David Slocum at

[log in to unmask], or by fax to 212.995.4557; inquiries are also welcome

by phone at 212.998.3970.

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J. David Slocum                         T: 212.998.3970

Assistant Dean                          F: 212.995.4557

Office of Student Affairs and                   [log in to unmask]

         Academic Services

Graduate School of Arts and Science

New York University

Cooper Station, Box 907

New York, NY 10276-0907

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