Rebel Without a Cause
Directed by Nicholas Ray in 1955
Year: 1955
Director: Nicholas Ray
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Settings
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Police station
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Jim Starks house
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Dawson High school
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Grifith Observatory
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Bluff- where the chickie run takes place
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Judy’s house
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Transportation:
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Car
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Bike
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Walking
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Dress:
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1950s casual
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Observations
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Judy’s parents sleep in
separate rooms.
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Red jacket to symbolise how
rebel jim has changed from the start of the movie to fit the trends no longer
conforming to his parents.
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Milk, - product placement
american drink shows inocence.
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Television is shown in the
background – shows how television was important
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Mother always wants to move to
show how she continues her search for the American dream.
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Props
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Toy clanging monkey
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Knife – “I thought only punks
fight with knives”
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Tray of food that father drops,
showing how he is loosing his manhood, “I better clean it up before she sees
it.” “Let her see.”
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Mothers pinafore that father is
wearing.
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Read jacket to symbolise how
rebel jim is rebel
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Milk, - product placement
american drink shows inocence.
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Television is shown in the
background – shows how television was importatn
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Painting of a woman that Jim
kicks in.
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Cinematography:
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Thir person shots
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180 degree shots
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Music:
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Clanging of the monkey- non
diagetic
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Foot steps – diagetic
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Taunting, aluding to something
more nefarious is going to happen.
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Characterisation:
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the Protagionist- Jim Stark
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The antagionist - Buz Gunderson
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Males
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John or Plato
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Jim tark
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Policemen
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Frank- Jim Stark’s mother
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Buz Gunderson
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Judy’s father
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Woman
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Judy
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Jim’s mother
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Jim’s grandmother
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Judy’s mother
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Conflict
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Conflict between Jim and his
parents “you’re tearing me apart”
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Conflict between Jim’s mother
and Jim’s Father – the mother is treating the father badly , "What do you do when you have to be a
man?"
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Conflict between Jim and police officer when jim tries to hit
him
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Conflict between Plato and the
police for killing the puppies
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Conflict between Buz and Jim
Stark
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Conflict between Judy and her
parents because they treat her to old, she wants to be young “girls don’t kiss
there fathers? Since when ? since they got to be 16?”
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Themes
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Rebeling
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American Cultural Landscape
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Men/ masculinity
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Must seem tough, they are
represented by there leather jackets, jim changes from nice suits and a product
of his parents then on to conformity wearing jackets.
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Jim wants his father to stand
up for himself , not wear the pinny.
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Mum was above jimmy dad at the
bottom, reversal of gender roles
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Suburnian housing
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Cookie cutter, very similar to
eachother, wooden houses .
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Class systems
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Middle class but with with
different levels, eg. Maid and old people living with them.
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Men had a flick knife.
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Judy/ females
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Dressed in a-line skirts with a
tiny waist. Very sterotypical looks, small and petite, compared to black maid-
who is unarticulate and out of place.
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Men drove woman around to prove
gender roles.
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RED
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Judy’s coat anad lipstick
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Title
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Jims jacket.
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