50 years after his untimely death in a car accident, James Dean remains one of those handful of pop culture figures who maintain a seemingly endless and hopelessly devoted fan base. The intense young actor from Marion, Indiana, remains just as alluring, just as mysterious, and just as powerful as he was when he first lit up the screen in Elia Kazan's adaptation of East of Eden. In Rebel Cool, film historian and critic Steven Tropiano collects quotes and anecdotes from a wide variety of sources to tell an utterly unique version of Dean's short and intense life, from early days in the New York acting world through his work on the trio of iconic films - East of Eden, Rebel Without A Cause and Giant - that cemented his legend in Hollywood. He also takes Dean's story into the present, tracing the effect of his work on other Hollywood leading men and the attempts to translate his story back onto film (Casper Van Dien and James Franco being two of the latest actors to play Dean on film). Complete with 16 pages of black and white photos, some rare and never before seen, Rebel Cool will be an essential addition to any film fan's library.