Description: William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac were three of the most significant figures of the Beat Generation, whose writings have been adapted and appropriated for graphic novels, feature-length films, and other media. Adapting the Beat Poets looks at film versions...
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"This work taps into the growing interest in the Beats as expressed through film. Prince is thorough for the most part. He works forward from the rather calamitous 1960 film adaptation of Jack Kerouac's The Subterraneans, released two years after the publication of the novel, with the change of the role of Mardou Fox from African American to French. Prince then delves into films such as Heart Beat (1980) and Naked Lunch (1991), providing a clear vision of their place within the contours of Beat adaptations, before turning to the recent spate of films that have brought Kerouac and company to life. Here, too, the author's examination is comprehensive....
Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers." --Choice Reviews