Naked Lens: Beat Cinema

The Naked Lens is a vital collection of essays and interviews focusing on the most significant interfaces between the Beat writers, Beat culture and cinema. Films by, featuring or inspired William S Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Brion Gysin, Anthony Balch, Ron Rice, John Cassavetes, Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Klaus Maeck, Gus van Sant, and many others. Including interviews with writers such as Allen Ginsberg, directors such as Robert Frank and actors such as Taylor Mead. Plus detailed examination of key Beat texts and cult classics such as Pull My Daisy , Chappaqua , Towers Open Fire and The Flower Thief ; verite and performance films such as "Shadows", "Don't Look Back" and "Wholly Communion"; B-movies such as "The Subterraneans", "Beat Generation" and Roger Corman's "Bucket of Blood"; and Hollywood-style adaptations from "Heart Beat" and "Barfly" through to Cronenberg's "Naked Lunch".