Seeing the Beat Generation

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.

"[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

• 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