Celebrating the celluloid expression of the Beat spiritarguably the most sustained legacy in U.S. countercultureNaked Lens is a comprehensive study of the most significant interfaces between the Beat writers, Beat culture, and cinema. Naked Lens features key Beat players and their collaborators, including William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Brion Gysin, Antony Balch, Ron Rice, John Cassavetes, Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Klaus Maeck, and Gus van Sant. As well as examining clearly Beat-inspired films such as Pull My Daisy, Chappaqua, and The Flower Thief, Jack Sargeant discusses cinéma vérité and performance films (Shadows and Wholly Communion), B-movies (The Subterraneans and Roger Corman’s Bucket of Blood), and Hollywood adaptations (Heart Beat and Barfly). The second half of the book is devoted to an extensive analysis of the films relating to William Burroughs, from Antony Balch’s Towers Open Fire to David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch. This book also contains the last ever interview with writer Allen Ginsberg, recorded three months before his death in April 1997.

Naked Lens: Beat Cinema

Humor & Entertainment

Sargeant, Jack

Movies

Catapult

Celebrating the celluloid expression of the âBeat' spirit-arguably the most sustained legacy in US counter-culture-The Naked Lens is a comprehensive study of the most signiï¬cant interfaces between the Beat writers, Beat culture and cinema. 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 from Pull My Daisy to William Burroughs' Naked Lunch.??â¢ New updated edition includes recently uncovered Burroughs footage, plus Beat starring Courtney Love ?â¢ New ISBN, new cover image, new numbered spine.??Jack Sargeant is the author of Deathtripping and Lost Highways.?

Naked Lens: Beat Cinema (Creation Cinema Collection)

Creation Books

A collection of illustrated essays on and by some of the most highly acclaimed figures in the global underground today. Suture documents radical artists, filmmakers, and writers working at the fringes of contemporary culture, including: Lydia Lunch, Joe Coleman, Romain Slocombe, Suehiro Maruo, John Hilcoat, James Havoc, Trevor Brown, Dame Darcy, Mark Hejnar.

Suture: The Counter-Culture Arts Journal

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

The Tears Corporation/Creation

Jack Sargeant's first new book dedicated to underground film since 1999 sees the cult author return to the physical, body-focused and transgressive films that first seduced him. With Flesh & Excess: On Underground Film, the focus is now divided between the historical, theoretical and philosophical. Starting with an exploration of the return to the shock of the body in underground film in the 1980s and the growth of underground film in the '90s, he explores and defines an underground cinema that remains radical and contemporary, informing subcultures and independent cinema today.Primarily focusing on a handful of key works by two award-winning underground filmmakers (Usama Alshaibi and Aryan Kaganof), Sargeant examines the the desire - even the need - for a shocking bodily representations and interventions. Punctuating his writing with philosophical analysis, explorations of areas as diverse as industrial culture, surrealism, butoh dance, fine art and medical fetishism, the book challenges the reader to examine the very nature of pleasure, of viewing and of experiencing cinema.Comprehensively illustrated throughout.

Flesh and Excess: On Underground Film

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Amok Books

Archiving and reviewing every punk performance captured on celluloid, No Focus is a complete overview that also covers the birth of music video, postindustrial and Euro-trash punk documentaries, classic and obscure movies inspired by punk rock and street/youth subculture (from Jubilee and Repo Man to The Filth and the Fury and 24 Hour Party People), and punk cinema in the shape of Buuel and surrealist films. Further, No Focus is packed with new and exclusive interviews with leading film -directors-providing both technical and anecdotal insights-as well as many rare punk photos, posters, and images throughout.

NO FOCUS

Headpress

This exhaustive study focuses on the New York filmmakers that coalesced around the radical manifesto espoused by downtown filmmaker Nick Zedd: none shall emerge unscathed.” Placing their work within the wider alternative film and downtown post-punk scenes, Deathtripping offers detailed analyses of the movement’s films alongside interviews with the filmmakers and their collaborators, including Richard Kern, Nick Zedd, Tommy Turner, Beth B, Joe Coleman, and Lydia Lunch. Also discussed are seminal influences such as the Kuchar brothers, Jack Smith, and Andy Warhol as well as the history of underground and trash cinema.

Deathtripping: Underground Trash Cinema (ScreenPrint)

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