Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "James Dean" in English language version.
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James Dean has also defined what one might call the panoply of adolescence, a wardrobe in which is expressed a whole attitude towards society: blue jeans, heavy sweaters, leather jacket, no tie, unbuttoned shirt, deliberate sloppiness are so many ostensible signs (having the value of political badges) of a resistance against the social conventions of a world of adults.
Dean was the first to receive a posthumous Academy Award nomination for acting and is the only actor to have received two such posthumous nominations.
...this is quite simply the first and finest biography ever written about James Dean.
Some might wonder about Kazan's claim in his memoir that he heard them "boffing" in Jimmy's dressing room from his office across the hall. Pardon my skepticism, but I figure he must have had remarkable ears capable of hearing "boffers" through the solid wall of his own office, across a wide carpeted corridor, then through Jimmy's own similarly solid dressing-room wall.
One of them, Elvis Presley, brilliantly blended black blues and gospel with the white actor James Dean's movie persona.
The sense of alienation from society and distrust of authority that was inherent in the leather jacket of James Dean or the blue jeans of Elvis Presley was incorporated into the modern sensibility of youth
That so-called "aberrant" sex had become a promotional feature of the book market was exemplified by author Paul Alexander's intimation that James Dean was homosexual in Boulevard of Broken Dreams. But in Hollywood mythology and the eyes of the mediated vision, Dean, even in death, remained the perennial media-made image of the 1950s' rebellious youth.
