Seeing the Beat Generation

Entering the Literature through Film

Raj Chandarlapaty (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

235 Seiten

2019
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-7575-6 (ISBN)

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Film adaptations of Beat literature have proven to engage students. This book looks closely at the film adaptations of works by such authors as Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Carolyn Cassady, Amiri Baraka and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, as they relate to American history and literary studies.

Beat generation writers dismantled mainstream America. They wrote under the influence of psychedelic drugs; they crossed and navigated multicultural boundaries and questioned the American dream; and they explored homosexuality, feminism and hyper-masculinity, redefining America's marital and familial codes. Teaching such a history can be daunting, but film adaptations of Beat literature have proven to engage students. This book looks closely at the film adaptations of works by such authors as Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Gary Snyder, Carolyn Cassady, Amiri Baraka and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, as they relate to American history and literary studies.

Raj Chandarlapaty has taught literature and writing for the past 17 years, and has published articles on Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, James Baldwin and Mohammed Mrabet. He lives in Aurora, Colorado.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction: New Americanist Visions, Modern

Theory and Knowledge, and the Beat “Setting” as Found in Film

One. Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac: The Films and the Reinvention of Text

Two. Allen Ginsberg: The Films and Romanticism’s True Test

Three. William S. Burroughs: The Films and His Postmodern Techniques of Reinvention

Four. Amiri Baraka, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Carolyn Cassady and Gary Snyder: Films on the Relevance of the Lesser-Known Beats

Conclusion: Sixty-Five Years Later, and What Did We Learn?

Appendix: Audiobooks and Recordings—New Beat

Consciousness and Teaching the Beats

Chapter Notes

Works Cited

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	20.07.2019
Zusatzinfo	appendix, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	322 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4766-7575-9 / 1476675759
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-7575-6 / 9781476675756
Zustand	Neuware