Nicholas Ray: An American Journey

Nicholas Ray: An American Journey by Eisenschitz, Bernard. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780571140862.

Nicholas Ray was one of Americans 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. Rays 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 cinemas greatest talents, and tells the story in such a way that Rays life parallels the crises, upheavals and triumphs in American society in the twentieth century.