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Nicholas Ray - The Glorious Failure of an American Director (Paperback)
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"The cinema is Nicholas Ray". (Jean-Luc Godard). The visionary
filmmaker Nicholas Ray spent his lifetime creating films that were
dark, emotionally charged, and haunted by social misfits and
bruised young people consumed by private anguish. Notoriously
self-destructive, even in his youth, Ray empathized with the broken
and misunderstood - the alcohol, drugs, and rage that ate away at
his core translated into characters with unrivaled depth on-screen.
Beloved by critics, peers, and audiences alike, Nicholas Ray
created a vision of the modern teenage experience with "Rebel
Without a Cause" (1955) and reinvented the western with "Johnny
Guitar" (1954). Yet, in one of the most dramatic Hollywood stories
on record, Ray's meteoric rise to fame was rivaled only by his
dramatic fall from grace. Now, in time for the celebration of Ray's
100th birthday, preeminent American film biographer Patrick
McGilligan offers the first comprehensive, full-length biography of
Nicholas Ray - a man whose troubled life was punctuated by moments
of creative genius. Meticulously detailed, yet compulsively
readable, "Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure" delves into Ray's
fascinating life story in and out of the spotlight - from his
small-town roots in Galesville, Wisconsin, to his four marriages,
drug and alcohol addictions, his sexual relationships with actors
(including both James Dean and Natalie Wood), and his ultimate
banishment from the Hollywood community that helped foster his
growth as a director. Thirty-one years after his death, Nicolas
Ray's body of work remains as a celebrated testament to the
troubled director's struggle to create meaning from an otherwise
shattered existence. In this unparalleled look into the dark
moments of Ray's history and secrets of his creative process,
Patrick McGilligan tells the full captivating story of an American
film great.
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