The 1950s began on an ominous note with the United States, as part of a nominally UN force, becoming involved in a war in Korea and the repressive and paranoid investigations of Senator McCarthy and company in full throttle. The decade, however, ultimately evolved into one permeated by a broad political and cultural consensus…
Films of Interest:
Big Jim McLain, My Son John, Viva Zapata, High Noon and On the Waterfront
Rebel Without a Cause was less about rebellion than about the anger of Jim Stark (James Dean) toward his middle-class parents and the world. Jim is a brooding, suffering, isolated, high school student who hates his apron father’s (Jim Backus) flaccid amiability and weak submission to his self-involved backbiting wife.
The 1950s began on an ominous note with the United States, as part of a nominally UN force, becoming involved in a war in Korea and the repressive and paranoid investigations of Senator McCarthy and company in full throttle. The decade, however, ultimately evolved into one permeated by a broad political and cultural consensus…
Films of Interest:
Big Jim McLain, My Son John, Viva Zapata, High Noon and On the Waterfront
Rebel Without a Cause was less about rebellion than about the anger of Jim Stark (James Dean) toward his middle-class parents and the world. Jim is a brooding, suffering, isolated, high school student who hates his apron father’s (Jim Backus) flaccid amiability and weak submission to his self-involved backbiting wife.