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Nicholas Ray - Notes on Style(en)

With the release of Nicholas Ray's debut They Live by Night in 1948, a new style emerged in American narrative film. A style full of risk and confusion, based on a deliberately shaky balance of shots, cuts, scenes, gestures, events and acting. Ray was part of a generation that sought new forms of characterization, new forms of acting and behavior, new social inputs – and a new language in framing, mise-en-scene and montage to capture all those fleeting experiences.

Nicholas Ray: Especially for Pierre(en)

Profile of Nicholas Ray(en)

An interview with the American film director which was first broadcast on the CBS-TV television series "Camera Three."

Nicholas Ray Gun Virus(en)

Inspired by the work of experimental film maker Paul Sharits - an investigation into the colour, framing and rhythm of Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar (1954).