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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This documentary tells the story of the incredible and enduring friendship between Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, and how they gave birth to the literary movement of the Beat Generation. It begins in New York, at the end of the Second World War, travels through San Francisco, Mexico City, Tangier, Paris and ends fifteen years later with the publication of Howl (Ginsberg), of On the Road (Kerouac) and Naked Lunch (Burroughs). Each...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Years before the Beats arrived in San Francisco, the city exploded with artistic expressions: painting, theatre, film, poetry. At its center was the groundbreaking filmmaker and poet James Broughton. Big Joyexplores Broughton's passionate embrace of a life of pansexual transcendence and a fiercely independent mantra: 'follow your own weird.' His remarkable story spans the post-war San Francisco Renaissance, his influence on the Beat generation, escape...
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 161
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Allen Ginsberg.
4) Jack Kerouac
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 507
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Jack Kerouac.
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 438
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of William S. Burroughs.
6) Beat hotel
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
1957, Paris. A cheap no-name hotel becomes a haven for a new breed of artists struggling to free themselves from the conformity and censorship of America. Called the Beat hotel, it soon became an epicenter of the beat generation. This revelatory new documentary delves deep into this amazing place and time. Fleeing the obscenity trials surrounding the publication of Howl, Allen Ginsberg, along with Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso, happened upon the...
Author
Series
Twayne's masterwork studies volume no. 172
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth analysis of the literary work On The Road, as well as its importance and critical reception. Includes a chronology of the life and works of the author.
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Provides informative biographical profiles of the important and influential persons of African American and/or black heritage. Covers persons of various nationalities in a wide variety of fields, including architecture, art, business, dance, education, fashion, film, industry, journalism, law, literature, medicine, music, politics and government, publishing, religion, science and technology, social issues, sports, television, theater, and others.
9) On the road
Author
Language
English
Description
A quintessential novel of America & the Beat Generation On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the N. American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" & "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge & experience. Kerouac's love of America, compassion for humanity & sense of language as jazz combine to make On the Road an inspirational work of lasting...
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In a life that has spanned 92 creative years, ruth weiss is one of the most influential writers of the Beat Generation. Born to a Jewish family during the rise of Nazism, as a 10-year-old refugee, she escaped to the United States. ruth became a Jazz troubadour exemplifying the zeitgeist of Chicago, New Orleans, and San Francisco. In the 1950s, she opened up and organized the first poetry readings in North Beach cafes and bars, giving a platform to...
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
This engaging documentary explores the insights and influences of the American Beat Poets. The film conveys their consciousness and sensibility through candid interviews with William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Diane Di Prima, among others.. Designed as a tribute to them and to their spirit of artistic freedom, GANG OF SOULS also weaves in additional commentary from contemporary musicians, poets and writers such as Marianne Faithfull, Richard Hell,...
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1959.
Language
English
Description
Nerdy Walter Paisley (Dick Miller), a maladroit busboy at a beatnik café who doesn't fit in with the cool scene around him, attempts to woo his beautiful co-worker, Carla (Barboura Morris), by making a bust of her. When his klutziness results in the death of his landlady's cat, he panics and hides its body under a layer of plaster. But when Carla and her friends enthuse over the resulting artwork, Walter decides to create some bigger and more elaborate...
13) The Poetry Deal
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
THE POETRY DEAL is an impressionistic documentary about legendary poet Diane di Prima, the most famous woman poet of the Beat Generation. Still actively writing in San Francisco where she is poet laureate, di Prima is fierce, funny and philosophical. She is a pioneer who broke boundaries of class and gender to publish her writing; her friend Allen Ginsberg called her “heroic in life and poetics.” THE POETRY DEAL opens a window looking back through...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
William S. Burroughs: featuring never before seen footage as well as exclusive interviews with his closest friends and colleagues. Born the heir of the Burroughs' adding machine estate, he struggled throughout his life with addiction, control systems, and self. He was forced to deal with the tragedy of killing his wife and the repercussions of neglecting his son. His novel, Naked Lunch, was one of the last books to be banned by the U.S. government....
Author
Publisher
NBM Graphic Novels
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A biography in comics of rock singer Janis Joplin, featuring highlights of her journey from childhood after the Second World War to her abrupt death in late 1970. Fed by the thirst for freedom of the Beat Generation and the desire for emancipation expressed by American youth in the early 1960s, Janis Joplin left for San Francisco, the epicenter of cultural innovation. There, she abandons herself to all impulses, overcoming without hesitation all the...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Caleb Carr has had special relationships with cats since he was a young boy in a turbulent household, famously peopled by the founding members of the Beat Generation, where his steadiest companions were the adopted cats that lived with him both in the city and the country. As an adult, he has had many close feline companions, with relationships that have outlasted most of his human ones. But only after building a three-story home in rural, upstate...
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