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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: “I’m a Stranger Here Myself”
Why Nicholas Ray?
Film Authorship, Auteurism, and Reputation
Modernism, Modernity, and Mass Culture
1 Cult of the Outlaw: Cinephilia, Film Criticism, and Mass Cultural Modernism
Sites of Modernism in Ray’s Biographical Legend
Ray’s Reception at Cahiers du cinéma, 1953–60
Ray’s Reception in the Academy, 1960–79
2 Performance of Authorship: Film Directing, Male Movie Stars, and Modern Acting Styles
An Actor’s Director
James Dean: Last Night When We Were Young
Robert Mitchum: Wild Man Blues
Humphrey Bogart: (In My) Solitude
3 Rebirth of the Auteur: Pedagogy, Self-Promotion, and Political Modernism
Toward a New Auteurism
Auteur as Teacher, or: Authoring a Public Self
Last Rites
4 Generations of Rebels: Influence, Legacy, and Modernist Art Cinemas
The Birth of the Cool and the Journey to Hip
Jean-Luc Godard: Opening the Cinémathèque Vault
Wim Wenders: A Cowboy in Hamburg
Jim Jarmusch: From New York to the New World
Conclusion: Rediscovering Nicholas Ray
How I Came to Ray from the Back Roads
Preserving an Image
Teaching Rebellion
Notes
Works Cited
Chronological Filmography
Index
Back Cover
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