Naked Lens: Beat Cinema - Softcover

Sargeant, Jack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1593762208 ISBN 13: 9781593762209

Publisher: Soft Skull Press, 2009

Synopsis

Celebrating the celluloid expression of the Beat spirit - arguably the most sustained legacy in US 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, Anthony Balch, Ron Rice, John Cassavetes, Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Klaus Maeck and Gus van Sant.

About this title

Product Description:

Unusual book

Review:

Sargeant not only understands the mechanisms of the art world, he also knows the workings of the 'power of transgression'. He laces his essays with the ideas of theorists such as Foucault, Bataille, and Deleuze. In the process of conducting his interviews, Sargeant reveals that he is more eloquent and well versed than his subjects. Could this be further proof that intellectuals have a place in the underground after all? -- Your Flesh

The focus he (Sargeant) shines intelligently upon the concept of 'Beat Films' is years overdue. A book of this nature must surely have been done before, but no, it has not. As much a book about the atmosphere of Beat creation as it is of film making, Jack Sargeant has come up trumps here. -- Beat Scene

About this edition

• Publisher: Soft Skull Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1593762208
• ISBN 13: 9781593762209
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256