Description: Reconstructs how Ray became a "rebel auteur" in cinema culture.
Brief description: Will Scheibel is Assistant Professor in the English Department at Syracuse University, where he teaches film and screen studies. He is the coeditor (with Steven Rybin) of Lonely Places, Dangerous Ground: Nicholas Ray in American Cinema, also published by SUNY Press.
Review Quotes:
"This is an excellent book, as useful to me as a Ray scholar for the treasure trove of information it amasses as for its ideas." -- Bill Krohn, author of Masters of Cinema: Alfred Hitchcock