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Janet Forman's Unequaled Documentary Film Hosted By Steve Allen Filled With Extensive Exclusive Interviews With The Surviving Lights Of The Beat Generation As Well As Those That Passed In Archival Footage Form, Presented In The Highest DVD Quality MPG Video Format Of 9.1 MBPS As An Archival Quality All Regions Format DVD, MP4 Video Download Or USB Flash Drive! (Color, 1987, 1 Hour 26 Minutes.) #TheBeatGeneration #AnAmericanDream #JanetForman #SteveAllen #BeatGeneration #BeatPoets #BeatPoetry #AllenGInsberg #AmiriBaraka #WilliamSBurroughs #GregoryCorso #LawrenceFerlinghetti #AbbieHoffman #HerbertHuncke #JackKerouac #TimothyLeary #Literature #Poetry #DVD #VideoDownload #MP4 #USBFlashDrive
Director:
Janet Forman
Writers:
Janet Forman, Regina Weinrich (as Regina Weinreich)
Cast:
Steve Allen ... Host
David Amram ... Himself
Amiri Baraka ... Himself
Ray Bremser ... Himself
William S. Burroughs ... Himself (as William Burroughs)
Carolyn Cassady ... Herself
Neal Cassady ... Himself (archive footage)
Clark Coolidge ... Himself
Gregory Corso ... Himself
Robert Creeley ... Himself
Diane Di Prima ... Herself
Larry Fagin ... Himself
Lawrence Ferlinghetti ... Himself
Allen Ginsberg ... Himself
Abbie Hoffman ... Himself
Herbert Huncke ... Himself
Hettie Jones ... Herself
Jack Kerouac ... Himself (archive footage)
Jan Kerouac ... Herself
Timothy Leary ... Himself
Thelonious Monk ... Himself (archive footage)
Peter Orlovsky ... Himself
Carl Solomon ... Himself
Anne Waldman ... Herself
The Beat Generation was a literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-war era. The bulk of their work was published and popularized throughout the 1950s. The central elements of Beat culture are the rejection of standard narrative values, making a spiritual quest, the exploration of American and Eastern religions, the rejection of economic materialism, explicit portrayals of the human condition, experimentation with psychedelic drugs, and sexual liberation and exploration. Allen Ginsberg's Howl (1956), William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch (1959), and Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957) are among the best known examples of Beat literature. Both Howl and Naked Lunch were the focus of obscenity trials that ultimately helped to liberalize publishing in the United States. The members of the Beat Generation developed a reputation as new bohemian hedonists, who celebrated non-conformity and spontaneous creativity. The core group of Beat Generation authors-Herbert Huncke, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Lucien Carr, and Kerouac-met in 1944 in and around the Columbia University campus in New York City. Later, in the mid-1950s, the central figures, with the exception of Burroughs and Carr, ended up together in San Francisco, where they met and became friends of figures associated with the San Francisco Renaissance. In the 1950s, a Beatnik subculture formed around the literary movement, although this was often viewed critically by major authors of the Beat movement. In the 1960s, elements of the expanding Beat movement were incorporated into the hippie and larger counterculture movements. Neal Cassady, as the driver for Ken Kesey's bus Furthur, was the primary bridge between these two generations. Ginsberg's work also became an integral element of early 1960s hippie culture.
Janet Forman's Unequaled Documentary Film Hosted By Steve Allen Filled With Extensive Exclusive Interviews With The Surviving Lights Of The Beat Generation As Well As Those That Passed In Archival Footage Form, Presented In The Highest DVD Quality MPG Video Format Of 9.1 MBPS As An Archival Quality All Regions Format DVD, MP4 Video Download Or USB Flash Drive! (Color, 1987, 1 Hour 26 Minutes.) #TheBeatGeneration #AnAmericanDream #JanetForman #SteveAllen #BeatGeneration #BeatPoets #BeatPoetry #AllenGInsberg #AmiriBaraka #WilliamSBurroughs #GregoryCorso #LawrenceFerlinghetti #AbbieHoffman #HerbertHuncke #JackKerouac #TimothyLeary #Literature #Poetry #DVD #VideoDownload #MP4 #USBFlashDrive
Director:
Janet Forman
Writers:
Janet Forman, Regina Weinrich (as Regina Weinreich)
Cast:
Steve Allen ... Host
David Amram ... Himself
Amiri Baraka ... Himself
Ray Bremser ... Himself
William S. Burroughs ... Himself (as William Burroughs)
Carolyn Cassady ... Herself
Neal Cassady ... Himself (archive footage)
Clark Coolidge ... Himself
Gregory Corso ... Himself
Robert Creeley ... Himself
Diane Di Prima ... Herself
Larry Fagin ... Himself
Lawrence Ferlinghetti ... Himself
Allen Ginsberg ... Himself
Abbie Hoffman ... Himself
Herbert Huncke ... Himself
Hettie Jones ... Herself
Jack Kerouac ... Himself (archive footage)
Jan Kerouac ... Herself
Timothy Leary ... Himself
Thelonious Monk ... Himself (archive footage)
Peter Orlovsky ... Himself
Carl Solomon ... Himself
Anne Waldman ... Herself
The Beat Generation was a literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-war era. The bulk of their work was published and popularized throughout the 1950s. The central elements of Beat culture are the rejection of standard narrative values, making a spiritual quest, the exploration of American and Eastern religions, the rejection of economic materialism, explicit portrayals of the human condition, experimentation with psychedelic drugs, and sexual liberation and exploration. Allen Ginsberg's Howl (1956), William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch (1959), and Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957) are among the best known examples of Beat literature. Both Howl and Naked Lunch were the focus of obscenity trials that ultimately helped to liberalize publishing in the United States. The members of the Beat Generation developed a reputation as new bohemian hedonists, who celebrated non-conformity and spontaneous creativity. The core group of Beat Generation authors-Herbert Huncke, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Lucien Carr, and Kerouac-met in 1944 in and around the Columbia University campus in New York City. Later, in the mid-1950s, the central figures, with the exception of Burroughs and Carr, ended up together in San Francisco, where they met and became friends of figures associated with the San Francisco Renaissance. In the 1950s, a Beatnik subculture formed around the literary movement, although this was often viewed critically by major authors of the Beat movement. In the 1960s, elements of the expanding Beat movement were incorporated into the hippie and larger counterculture movements. Neal Cassady, as the driver for Ken Kesey's bus Furthur, was the primary bridge between these two generations. Ginsberg's work also became an integral element of early 1960s hippie culture.