Film/Poetry. Opening with an essay on Robert Frank's Pull My Daisy ("The first truly Beat film" -- Jonas Mekas) and related interviews with Alfred Leslie and Frank, Jack Sargeant's encyclopedic survey of "Beat cinema" interlaces essays on seminal films and their milieux with interviews of many of the major participants. Included in Naked Lens, chapters on John Cassavetes' Shadows, the San Francisco Beat scene, Harry Smith (Heaven & Earth Magic), Jack Smith (Flaming Creatures), Conrad Rooks (Chappaqua), Andy Warhol (Chelsea ...
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Film/Poetry. Opening with an essay on Robert Frank's Pull My Daisy ("The first truly Beat film" -- Jonas Mekas) and related interviews with Alfred Leslie and Frank, Jack Sargeant's encyclopedic survey of "Beat cinema" interlaces essays on seminal films and their milieux with interviews of many of the major participants. Included in Naked Lens, chapters on John Cassavetes' Shadows, the San Francisco Beat scene, Harry Smith (Heaven & Earth Magic), Jack Smith (Flaming Creatures), Conrad Rooks (Chappaqua), Andy Warhol (Chelsea Girls), the complex array of film work connected with the life and work of William S. Burroughs (including Gus Van Sant's Drug Store Cowboy, David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch, et al), and Hollywood versions of the Beats, from b-films to Barfly; also, extensive interviews with, besides Leslie and Frank, Taylor Mead, Jonas Mekas, Peter Whitehead (Wholly Communion), Allen Ginsberg, Brion Gysin, and Klaus Maeck (Decoder). Includes a length bibliography, a list of films available on video, and index of films discussed in the book. Loaded with photos and film-stills.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 650grams, ISBN: 9781871592290.
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Fine. 4to. 250pp, b/w photos, appendices, bibliography, index of films. Paperback with creased lower front corner. This is a 'vital collection of essays and interviews focusing on the most significant interfaces between the Beat writers, Beat culture and cinema, films by, featuring, or inspired by William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Robert Frank, Brion Gysin, Anthony Balch, Ron Rice, John Cassavetes, Harry Smith, Gregory Corso, Jack Smith, Bob Dylan and many others.