1950s Movie Essay: Rebel Without A Cause Introduction Rebel Without A Cause is a very popular film from 1955. It depicts life in the 1950’s from the viewpoint of three teenagers who live in Los Angeles‚ California. They live in a comfortable environment in middle-class America. However‚ they must deal with their own inabilities to "fit" into society. The teens try to fit in with their peers and find the love they so desperately need from their families and others like their peers. The biases
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Chantelle Brooks Rebel Essay Block: 3 The film “Rebel without a Cause” by Nicholas Ray should be taught to students because students will learn about how they can’t run away from their problems‚ and how teenage rebellion will affect them later on and the others around them. Students would also learn about the littleness of humankind‚ and how life is cruel and difficult. Students should be aware that they can’t run away from their problems. They have to face them; if you
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Rebel Without a Cause One of the major themes that are presented throughout the whole entire movie is the dysfunctional relationship between one of the characters and their fathers. The movie portrays father figures as problematic which then shape the actions and the characters themselves as the movie progresses. We can see all three dynamics of the father figure presented through Jim‚ Judy‚ and Plato. Through Jim‚ the father figure that he is presented with is a father who is weak allows himself
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care. Jim’s dad is certain that he buys Jim things but he questions whether he gives him love. Jim with in the first couple minutes displays however teen-ager feels “you are tearing me apart”. Rebel Without a Cause allows a parallel between teenage rebellion in the 50’s and teenage rebellion now. Jim rebels against not only the law but as well his parents in the first scene. His father says drinking every once in while isn’t the worst thing while his mother states that it is not acceptable to drink
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the year in which Nicholas Ray’s film Rebel Without a Cause was released as the latest Hollywood success. With its revolutionary acting and modern style‚ Rebel Without a Cause proved to be an ideal example of progressive‚ contemporary cinema. Amidst these factors is the intricate screenplay regarding a rebellious adolescent and his troubled relationships with his family and new found friends. Unfortunately‚ this was a film that was produced in the mid-1950s‚ a time when the self-censorship board
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In the late hours of the night Jim Stark‚ the main character of Nicholas Ray’s‚ Rebel Without a Cause‚ can be found resting his head against a piece of crumpled wrapping paper‚ lying on the cold pavement‚ droning out all his troubles with the sound of a toy monkey’s clamour. Throughout the entirety of the film Jim constantly seems to be droning out his problems‚ whether it be with a toy monkey of with a rebellious façade‚ which subconsciously distracts him from his true issues. Jim Stark’s defiant
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The crisis of masculinity in the 1950s led to a series of ingénues‚ or non-threatening‚ innocent‚ young women‚ appearing in popular culture. As the men felt less important and felt their masculinity dwindling‚ the lesser women became because in society men are always held above women.“This alteration reflected the social values of postwar society‚ with its emphasis on marriage and he home as the defining components of a happy American life‚” (Nash‚ pg. 169) After all‚ concerns about men’s loss of
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The film‚ “Rebel Without a Cause”‚ directed by Nicholas Ray‚ takes place in the 1950’s. The story is set in Los Angeles‚ California‚ where main character Jim Stark battles to make friends at his new school‚ yet everyone but his new friend‚ Plato‚ is rejecting him. Plato’s parents have left him in the care of the housekeeper‚ never to return again. When Jim and Plato meet in jail‚ another character was introduced‚ Judy‚ who is desperate for the male attention she does not receive from her father.
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romantic films of all time would have to go to Rebel without a Cause because it tells how the present day teenage love life is like‚ “a romance set among teenagers seeking satisfaction outside the traditional systems‚ misunderstood by their parents‚ misunderstanding and mistrusting of their parents’ values” (Tomlinson par2). A movie that includes a variety of elements deserves being
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however‚ were more so about the teenage years of the baby boomers. One movie that highlighted this time period’s “beta” theme was Rebel Without a Cause. If I were to summarize
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