Beat Film, Beat Writers

David Stephen Calonne

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Routledge
25 October 2024

Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Humanities; Media studies

Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Beat Film, Beat Writers is the first monograph to analyze the films of Christopher Maclaine, Lawrence Jordan, ruth weiss, Ron Rice, Robert Frank, Barbara Rubin, Shirley Clarke, William S. Burroughs, and Joanne Kyger. The book is noteworthy for its emphasis on women filmmakers who have traditionally been excluded from close analysis by film scholars. Beat Film, Beat Writers also explores the ways Beat authors such as Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, Diane di Prima, Wiliam S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Peter Orlovsky, Gregory Corso, Joanne Kyger, and others became deeply involved with the film communities of New York and California. The book discusses their roles as both actors and participants in the making of these films and demonstrates how many of the same themes that characterized Beat literature surface in cinema. The anxiety over the possibilities of nuclear war, the search for deeper modes of spirituality in the study of Buddhism as well as occult and esoteric systems, the struggle for equality for the LGBTQ+ community, the beginnings of the ecological movement, and the fight against censorship and the open depiction of sexuality are all themes that occur both in Beat film and in Beat literature. Beat Film, Beat Writers also features an Epilogue on the cinema of singer and poet Jim Morrison, who, although not part of the Beat movement, was deeply influenced by Beat literature and carried on many of the aesthetic and philosophical aims of the Beats into the late sixties.

By: David Stephen Calonne
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 576g
ISBN: 9781032689173
ISBN 10: 103268917X
Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
Pages: 218
Publication Date: 25 October 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Stephen Calonne is the author of several books including William Saroyan: My Real Work Is Being; The Spiritual Imagination of the Beats; Diane di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions; R. Crumb: Literature, Autobiography, and the Quest for Self; Jazz, Counterculture, and the Sacred; and biographies of Charles Bukowski and Henry Miller. He has also edited five volumes of uncollected prose by Bukowski for City Lights. Calonne has lectured internationally and taught at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Michigan, and the University of Chicago. He presently teaches at Eastern Michigan University.

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Beat Film, Beat Writers

David Stephen Calonne

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