Beat Film, Beat Writers [Hardcover]

Introduction

1. Christopher Maclaine:? The San Francisco Scene
2. Lawrence Jordan: Beat California
3. ruth weiss and The Brink
4. Ron Rice: Songs of Innocence and Experience
5. Robert Frank: Daisies and Brothers
6. Barbara Rubin: I Know That We Can Live Loving Together, Seeing, Feeling, Touching to the Highest Spheres
7. Shirley Clarke: Rebel with a Cause
8. William S. Burroughs: The Bankruptcy of the Reality Studio
9. Joanne Kyger,? Descartes and the Splendor of

Epilogue After Beat Film: Jim Morrison

Bibliography

Beat Film, Beat Writers is the?first monograph to analyze the fims of Christopher Maclaine, Lawrence Jordan, ruth weiss, Ron Rice, Robert Frank, Barbara Rubin, Shirley Clarke, William S. Burroughs, and Joanne Kyger.?It emphasizes?women filmmakers and traces the interrelationships between Beat film and Beat literature.

Beat Film, Beat Writers is the first monograph to analyze the films of Christopher Maclaine, Lawrence Jordan, ruth weiss, Ron Rice, Robert Frank, Barbara Rubin, Shirley Clarke, William S. Burroughs, and Joanne Kyger. The book is noteworthy for its emphasis on women filmmakers who have traditionally been excluded from close analysis by film scholars. Beat Film, Beat Writers also explores the ways Beat authors such as Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, Diane di Prima, Wiliam S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Peter Orlovsky, Gregory Corso, Joanne Kyger, and others became deeply involved with the film communities of New York and California. The book discusses their roles as both actors and participants in the making of these films and demonstrates how many of the same themes that characterized Beat literature surface l#,