
Seeing the Beat Generation
Beat generation writers dismantled mainstream America. They wrote under the influence of psychedelic drugs; they crossed and navigated multicultural boundaries and questioned the American dream; and they explored homosexuality, feminism and hyper-masculinity, redefining America''s marital and familial codes. Teaching such a history can be daunting, but film adaptations of Beat literature have p...
Beat generation writers dismantled mainstream America. They wrote under the influence of psychedelic drugs; they crossed and navigated multicultural boundaries and questioned the American dream; and they explored homosexuality, feminism and hyper-masculinity, redefining America''s marital and familial codes. Teaching such a history can be daunting, but film adaptations of Beat literature have p...