This book makes a timely intervention in popular film culture, examining how three iconic Hollywood stars (Marlon Brando, James Dean and Elvis Presley) disrupted British youth culture when they starred in classic American films about juvenile delinquency.

Introduction1 ‘Attractive and imitable’: Marlon Brando and The Wild One ban in the UK2 ‘Our Teddy boys are angels’: Blackboard Jungle fever in the classroom3 ‘He died in his own rebellion’: James Dean and Rebel Without a Cause4 ‘A teenage revolution’: Bill Haley and the rock ’n’ roll cinema riots5 ‘All-singing, all-fighting man’: Elvis Presley as a rock ’n’ roll rebel6 Conclusion: the rise of the Angry Young MenIndex

Screening the Hollywood rebels is a fascinating transnational study that explores the relationship between classic American films about juvenile delinquency and British popular youth culture in the 1950s.The book examines the censorship, publicity and fandom surrounding such Hollywood films as The Wild One, Blackboard Jungle, Rebel Without a Cause, Rock Around the Clock and Jailhouse Rock, alongside such British films as The Blue Lamp, Spare the Rod and Serious Charge. Intersecting with star studies and social history, it is the first book to re-vision the stardom surrounding three extraordinarily influential Hollywood stars – Marlon Brando, James Dean and Elvis Presley – by looking at their meanings to British fans. The analysis provides a logical and sustained narrative that explains how and why these star images fed into and disrupted British cultural life.Based on a wide range of sources, from censorship records and archival accounts to personal interviews, Screening the Hollywood rebels offers new insights into questions of screen violence and censorship, masculinity and transnational stardom, method acting and performance, Americanisation and popular post-war British culture.