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Screening the Beats : media culture and the Beat sensibility

Author: David Sterritt
Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Film critic David Sterritt's Screening the Beats: Media Culture and the Beat Sensibility showcases the social and aesthetic viewpoints of lynchpin Beat writers Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg, juxtaposing their artistry with 1950s culture and achieving what Kerouac might have called a "bookmovie" riff. In clear prose, Sterritt captures the raw energy of the Beats and joins in their celebration  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Adaptations cinématographiques et télévisées
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Sterritt, David.
Screening the Beats.
Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2004
(OCoLC)607066172
Named Person: Jack Kerouac; Jack Kerouac
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: David Sterritt
ISBN: 0809325632 9780809325634
OCLC Number: 52471461
Description: xvi, 133 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Beats, movies, and ills of postwar America --
Lisped, muxed, and completely flunk: Jack Kerouac meets the three stooges --
Desolation angels: Kerouac, Buddhism, and film --
Revision, prevision, and the aura of improvisatory art --
Constructing the grotesque body in word, image, and sound.
Responsibility: David Sterritt.
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Abstract:

"Film critic David Sterritt's Screening the Beats: Media Culture and the Beat Sensibility showcases the social and aesthetic viewpoints of lynchpin Beat writers Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg, juxtaposing their artistry with 1950s culture and achieving what Kerouac might have called a "bookmovie" riff. In clear prose, Sterritt captures the raw energy of the Beats and joins in their celebration of aesthetic freakishness. Tapping into the diversified spirit of the Beat Generation and its nuanced relationship with postwar American culture, Sterritt considers how the Beats variously foreground, challenge, and illuminate major issues in Hollywood and avant-garde film, critical and cultural theory, and music in the mass-media age."--Jacket.

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