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- catalog abstract ""Film critic David Sterritt presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the Beat Generation, its intersections with mainstream and experimental film, and the interactions of all of these with American society and the culture of the '50s. Examining American society in the '50s, Sterritt balances the Beat countercultural goal of rebellion through both artistic creation and everyday behavior against the mainstream values of conformity and conservatism, growing worry over cold-war hostilities, and the "rat race" toward material success." "After an introductory overview of the Beat Generation, its history, its antecedents and its influences, Sterritt shows the importance of "visual thinking" in the lives and works of major Beat authors, most notably Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. He turns to Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogic theory to portray the Beat writers - who were inspired by jazz and other liberating influences - as carnivalesque rebels against what they perceived as a rigid and stifling social order." "Showing the Beats as social critics, Sterritt looks at the work of '50s photographers Robert Frank and William Klein; the attack against Beat culture in the pictures and prose of Life magazine; and the counterattack in Frank's film Pull My Daisy, featuring key Beat personalities. He further explores expressions of rebelliousness in film noir, the melodramas of director Douglas Sirk, and other Hollywood films." "Finally, Sterritt shows the changing attitudes toward the Beat sensibility in Beat-related Hollywood movies like A Bucket of Blood and The Beat Generation; television programs like Route 66 and The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, nonstudio films like John Cassavetes's improvisational Shadows and Shirley Clarke's experimental The Connection; and radically avant-garde works by such doggedly independent screen artists as Stan Brakhage, Ron Rice, Bruce Connor, and Ken Jacobs, drawing connections between their achievements and the most subversive products of their Beat contemporaries."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10880699.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description ""Film critic David Sterritt presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the Beat Generation, its intersections with mainstream and experimental film, and the interactions of all of these with American society and the culture of the '50s. Examining American society in the '50s, Sterritt balances the Beat countercultural goal of rebellion through both artistic creation and everyday behavior against the mainstream values of conformity and conservatism, growing worry over cold-war hostilities, and the "rat race" toward material success." "After an introductory overview of the Beat Generation, its history, its antecedents and its influences, Sterritt shows the importance of "visual thinking" in the lives and works of major Beat authors, most notably Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. ".
- catalog description "He further explores expressions of rebelliousness in film noir, the melodramas of director Douglas Sirk, and other Hollywood films." "Finally, Sterritt shows the changing attitudes toward the Beat sensibility in Beat-related Hollywood movies like A Bucket of Blood and The Beat Generation; television programs like Route 66 and The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, nonstudio films like John Cassavetes's improvisational Shadows and Shirley Clarke's experimental The Connection; and radically avant-garde works by such doggedly independent screen artists as Stan Brakhage, Ron Rice, Bruce Connor, and Ken Jacobs, drawing connections between their achievements and the most subversive products of their Beat contemporaries."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "He turns to Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogic theory to portray the Beat writers - who were inspired by jazz and other liberating influences - as carnivalesque rebels against what they perceived as a rigid and stifling social order." "Showing the Beats as social critics, Sterritt looks at the work of '50s photographers Robert Frank and William Klein; the attack against Beat culture in the pictures and prose of Life magazine; and the counterattack in Frank's film Pull My Daisy, featuring key Beat personalities. ".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Beats, Visions, and Cinema -- pt. 1. History, Theory, Culture: The Beat Generation Meets the Lonely Crowd -- 1. Historical Contexts -- 2. Theoretical Frameworks -- pt. 2. Literature, Photography, Film: From American Jukebox to Biologic Theater -- 3. Social Criticism -- 4. Beats, Films, and Liminality -- 5. Heading Underground.".
- catalog extent "xii, 258 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Mad to be saved.".
- catalog identifier "0809321807 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Mad to be saved.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press,".
- catalog relation "Mad to be saved.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "810.9/0054 21".
- catalog subject "American literature 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Beat generation.".
- catalog subject "Experimental films United States History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Literature and society United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Motion pictures United States History.".
- catalog subject "Motion pictures and literature United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Motion pictures and literature United States.".
- catalog subject "PS228.B6 S755 1998".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Beats, Visions, and Cinema -- pt. 1. History, Theory, Culture: The Beat Generation Meets the Lonely Crowd -- 1. Historical Contexts -- 2. Theoretical Frameworks -- pt. 2. Literature, Photography, Film: From American Jukebox to Biologic Theater -- 3. Social Criticism -- 4. Beats, Films, and Liminality -- 5. Heading Underground.".
- catalog title "Mad to be saved : the Beats, the '50s, and film / David Sterritt.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".