Mad to Be Saved: The Beats, the 50's, and Film

by Gary Gore, David Sterritt, Professor Emeritus David Sterritt

Book Overview

Film critic David Sterritt presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the Beat Generation, its intersections with main-stream and experimental film, and the interactions of all of these with American society and the culture of the 1950s. Sterritt balances the Beat countercultural goal of rebellion through both artistic creation and everyday behavior against the mainstream values of conformity and conservatism, growing worry over cold-war hostilities,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809321807
• ISBN13: 9780809321803
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Best book on the beat generation !!!!

Funny, complex, smart... Sterritt is far and away the best writer on the beats!! wonderful stuff!!