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Naked Lens

Beat Cinema

Jack Sargeant

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English
Soft Skull Press
01 January 2009
Celebrating the celluloid expression of the Beat spirit—arguably the most sustained legacy in U.S. counterculture—Naked Lens is a comprehensive study of the most significant interfaces between the Beat writers, Beat culture, and cinema. Naked Lens features key Beat players and their collaborators, including William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Brion Gysin, Antony Balch, Ron Rice, John Cassavetes, Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Klaus Maeck, and Gus van Sant. As well as examining clearly Beat-inspired films such as Pull My Daisy, Chappaqua, and The Flower Thief, Jack Sargeant discusses cinema verite and performance films (Shadows and Wholly Communion), B-movies (The Subterraneans and Roger Corman's Bucket of Blood), and Hollywood adaptations (Heart Beat and Barfly). The second half of the book is devoted to an extensive analysis of the films relating to William Burroughs, from Antony Balch's Towers Open Fire to David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch. This book also contains the last ever interview with writer Allen Ginsberg, recorded three months before his death in April 1997.
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Imprint:   Soft Skull Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   Revised Edition
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   359g
ISBN:   9781593762209
ISBN 10:   1593762208
Pages:   256
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Jack Sargeant is a writer whose books include Flesh & Excess, Against Control, Deathtripping, Naked Lens, as well as a curator and film-programmer. He lives in Australia.

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