Nicholas Ray was one of American's most distinctive film directors. Works like They Live by Night, In a Lonely Place, Johnny Guitar and Bigger Than Life reveal the physic ills of the 1950s more than any other films of that period. Ray's brooding pessimism and rebellious individualism reached their peak in most famous film, Rebel without a Cause. Originally published in France, this award-winning biography definitively captures one of cinema's greatest talents, and tells the story in such a way that Ray's life parallels the crises, upheavals and triumphs in American society in the twentieth century.

Nicholas Ray: An American Journey

Eisenschitz, Bernard

Biographies & Memoirs

Faber&Faber

This is a biography of Nicholas Ray, who was one of America's most distinctive film directors in the 1950s. Films such as "They Live By Night", "In a Lonely Place", "Johnny Guitar" and "Bigger Than Life" reveal the psychic ills of that decade, and Ray's brooding pessimism and rebellious individualism reached their peak in his most famous film, "Rebel Without a Cause".

Perhaps best known for Rebel without a Cause, American filmmaker Nicholas Ray directed dozens of movies in the film noir genre, including In a Lonely Place, Johnny Guitar, and They Live by Night. Born in Galesville, Wisconsin, in 1911, Ray was an iconoclastic figure in film—an alcoholic, depressive, and compulsive gambler—who found himself increasingly blacklisted in Hollywood in the 1960s only to be heralded as the spiritual father to American cinema’s New Wave and one of America’s greatest rebel auteurs. From Martin Scorsese to Jean-Luc Godard and Jim Jarmusch, Ray’s influence can be seen throughout the work of some of the twentieth century’s greatest directors. In this authoritative biography, Bernard Eisenschitz leaves no stone unturned.

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Univ. of Minnesota Press

Boris Vassilievitch Barnet

DE L OEIL

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Humor & Entertainment

KRAMER, ROBERT

Pantenburg, Volker

Turigliatto, Roberto

Movies

Austrian Film Museum

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