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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Years before the Beats arrived in San Francisco, the city exploded with artistic expressions: painting, theatre, film, poetry. At its center was the groundbreaking filmmaker and poet James Broughton. Big Joyexplores Broughton's passionate embrace of a life of pansexual transcendence and a fiercely independent mantra: 'follow your own weird.' His remarkable story spans the post-war San Francisco Renaissance, his influence on the Beat generation, escape...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A story of friendship, love, and murder in the early 1940s. The story recounts the pivotal year that changed Allen Ginsberg's life forever and provided the spark for him to start his creative revolution. Based on true events and characters.
4) Beat hotel
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
1957, Paris. A cheap no-name hotel becomes a haven for a new breed of artists struggling to free themselves from the conformity and censorship of America. Called the Beat hotel, it soon became an epicenter of the beat generation. This revelatory new documentary delves deep into this amazing place and time. Fleeing the obscenity trials surrounding the publication of Howl, Allen Ginsberg, along with Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso, happened upon the...
5) Big Sur
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Language
English
Description
Retiring to a seaside cabin near San Francisco, Jack Duluoz looks for tranquility, but finds only horror and despair.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
This is a celebration of the life of Neal Cassady, the author's friend and inspiration. The son of a Denver drop-out, brought up homeless and motherless during the Depression, Cassady - novelised as Cody - lived his life raw, hustling in pool halls, stealing cars and living wild.
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Philip Whalen was an American poet, Zen Buddhist, and key figure in the literary and artistic scene that unfolded in San Francisco in the 1950s and '60s. When the Beat writers came West, Whalen became a revered, much-loved member of the group. Erudite, shy, and profoundly spiritual, his presence not only moved his immediate circle of Beat cohorts, but his powerful, startling, innovative work would come to impact American poetry to the present day....
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A posthumous collection of more than 100 Ginsberg poems is largely comprised of spontaneously penned or forgotten works included in letters or sent to obscure publications and is arranged in chronological order and complemented by extensive author notes. --Publisher's description.
9) On the road
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Behind us lay the whole of America and everything Dean and I had previously known about life, and life on the road. We had finally found the magic land at the end of the road and we never dreamed the extent of the magic. Sal Paradise, a young innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz...
Author
Publisher
Taylor Trade Publishing
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
"This is the biography of writer, poet, and beat generation icon Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), whose novel On the Road catapulted him to the forefront of the literary world and influenced budding writers for generations to come." "Kerouac: The Definitive Biography recounts the story of this exceptional life and the key relationships that affected Kerouac's development as an artist, including those with his three wives, numerous girlfriends, and beloved...
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Steve Cochran stars as Dave Culloran, a woman-hating cop who has much in common with the serial rapist he is pursuing. The paths of the black-hearted cop and the black-gloved stalker converge when Culloran's wife is assaulted by the criminal, becomes pregnant and, not knowing which man is the father, must decide whether or not to keep the baby.
Author
Series
Pocket poets volume no. 4
Publisher
The City Lights Pocket Bookshop
Pub. Date
[1956]
Language
English
Description
Ginsberg's 1956 collection of poems created a sensation, becoming the subject of an obscenity trial and changing the literary landscape forever.
Publisher
Film Ideas
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Tells the story of the wonderful and long-lasting friendship between Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs that gave birth to the Beat Generation movement. It focuses on the corresponcence between the writers and unique archives to give an insider's account, from New York to Paris, San Francisco to Tangiers, of this exceptional literary adventure."--Back cover.
14) The beat hotel
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
1957, Paris. The Latin Quarter. A cheap no-name hotel becomes a haven for a new breed of artists struggling to free themselves from the conformity and censorship of America. Called the Beat Hotel, it soon became an epicenter of the Beat generation.
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