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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 ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: New Americanist Visions, ModernTheory and Knowledge, and the Beat “Setting” as Found in FilmOne. Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac: The Films and the Reinvention of TextTwo. Allen Ginsberg: The Films and Romanticism’s True TestThree. William S. Burroughs: The Films and His Postmodern Techniques of ReinventionFour. Amiri Baraka, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Carolyn Cassady and Gary Snyder: Films on the Relevance of the Lesser-Known BeatsConclusion: Sixty-Five Years Later, and What Did We Learn?Appendix: Audiobooks and Recordings—New BeatConsciousness and Teaching the BeatsChapter NotesWorks CitedIndex
"[This] book presents a warmly argued and impassioned rationale for advancing the teaching of Beat film in the literature classroom...Raj Chandarlapaty provides a method for Generation Z to benefit from this long metamorphosis, that their incendiary visions will persist, and that alone is reason to appreciate this remarkable book.”—The Mailer Review
