In the field of literature, the 1950s brought Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the beatniks inspired by Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, and other books that reflected rebellion against the mid-century insistence on conformity. In cinema, this trend was embodied in James Dean, the lead actor in the hit movie of 1955, Rebel Without a Cause,
