Naked Lens Beat Cinema

by Sargeant, Jack

• ISBN13: 9781593762209
• ISBN10: 1593762208
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-01
• Publisher: Soft Skull

Summary

Through a series of in-depth interviews, essays and explorations, Naked Lens examines the relationship between Beat authors and film. Exploring the filmmakers whose work embraced the freedom of the Beat scene and shared with it the desire to create a free, authentic, spontaneous and revolutionary cinema, Naked Lens includes filmmakers Robert Frank, Alfred Leslie, Ron Rice, Peter Whitehead, Jack Smith, Harry Smith, Jonas Mekas, Conrad Rooks and John Cassavettes. Naked Lens also examines the radical cinematic collaborations of William Burroughs, Brion Gysin and Antony Balch. Described as inspirational and visionary, Naked Lens remains the definitive work on Beat cinema. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Jack Sargeant is a writer whose books include Flesh & Excess, Against Control, Deathtripping, Naked Lens, as well as a curator and film-programmer. He lives in Australia.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 8
Introduction	p. 10
Searching For A Free Vision	p. 15
Pull My Daisy	p. 17
Notes On Pull My Daisy	p. 18
An Interview With Alfred Leslie	p. 27
An Interview With Robert Frank	p. 41
John Cassavetes' Shadows	p. 55
Wild Men & Outcast Visionaries	p. 69
Notes On The San Francisco Renaissance	p. 70
Ron Rice & Taylor Mead: Flower Thieves & Dharma Bums	p. 72
An Interview With Taylor Mead	p. 80
Eyeball Head Poem: Harry Smith	p. 91
Cobra Camp: Jack Smith	p. 101
An Interview With Jonas Mekas	p. 111
Wholly Communion	p. 125
A Few Poets Trying To Be Natural'	p. 126
An Interview With Peter Whitehead	p. 131
Conrad Rooks' Chappaqua	p. 143
An Interview With Allen Ginsberg	p. 151
The War Universe Of William S Burroughs	p. 161
Image Hoard	p. 163
Cinematic Experiments & Collaborations: Balch/Burroughs/Gysin/Sommerville	p. 164
An Interview With Brion Gysin (Paris, October 1983)	p. 173
Thee Films: An Account By Genesis P-Orridge	p. 181
Ongoing Guerilla Conditions	p. 190
Cut-Ups/Burroughs/Punk/Cut-Ups	p. 195
Electronic Revolutionaries	p. 196
An Interview With Klaus Maeck	p. 201
Cronenberg's Naked Lunch	p. 209
Burroughs Animated	p. 215
Appendix	p. 219
Mainstream/Hollywood & Beat Culture	p. 220
Notes On Gus Van Sant	p. 223
Shocking Beatniks & Beatsploitation	p. 226
Notes On Charles Bukowski	p. 228
Affiliated Works	p. 233
Beats On Film	p. 235
Herbert Hunke	p. 239
Bibliography	p. 241
Index of Films	p. 245
Picture Credits	p. 249
Film Sources	p. 250
Author Biographies	p. 251
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