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Author Sterritt, David

Title Screening the Beats : media culture and the Beat sensibility / David Sterritt
Published Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 133 pages)
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
Summary "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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969 -- Film adaptations
SUBJECT Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969 fast
Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Beats (Persons)
Mass media and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Mass media -- United States -- History -- 20th century
American literature -- Film adaptations
Beat generation.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American literature
Beats (Persons)
Mass media
Mass media and literature
American Literature.
English.
Languages & Literatures.
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Film adaptations
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2003013286
ISBN 1429417803
9781429417808