Naked Lens: Beat Cinema (Creation Cinema Collection)

by Jack Sargeant

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Celebrating the celluloid expression of the Beat spirit--arguably the most sustained legacy in U.S. counterculture--Naked Lens is a comprehensive study of the most significant interfaces between the Beat writers, Beat culture, and cinema.Naked Lens features key Beat players and their collaborators, including William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Brion Gysin, Antony Balch, Ron Rice, John Cassavetes, Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Klaus Maeck, and Gus van Sant. As well as show more examining clearly Beat-inspired films such asPull My Daisy, Chappaqua, andThe Flower Thief, Jack Sargeant discusses cinéma vérité and performance films (Shadows andWholly Communion), B-movies (The Subterraneans and Roger Corman'sBucket of Blood), and Hollywood adaptations (Heart Beat andBarfly). The second half of the book is devoted to an extensive analysis of the films relating to William Burroughs, from Antony Balch'sTowers Open Fire to David Cronenberg'sNaked Lunch. This book also contains the last ever interview with writer Allen Ginsberg, recorded three months before his death in April 1997. show less

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A collection of essays and interviews focusing on,the most significant interfaces between the Beat,writers, Beat culture and cinema; films byfeaturing or inspired by: William S BurroughsAllen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Charles BukowskiRobert Frank, Brion Gysin, Anthony Balch, Lawrence,Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, Warhol, Dylan and,many others. Includes interviews, complete film,analysis, filmographies and more from the author,of 'deathtripping'.

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