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Jack Kerouac
Title
Jack Kerouac [electronic resource (video)] / NVC Arts (Firm).
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2013], c1997.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (51 min.) : sd., col.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on October 24, 2013.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Title from distributor's description.
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Summary
Jack Kerouac, cult writer of the Beat generation, remains an American icon. This documentary focuses on the creative pinnacle of his life-63 days spent as a fire warden on Desolation Peak in Washington State. Examining the time through photos and the commentary of those who knew him, the program illuminates Kerouac's previous work, while prefiguring his later spiral into alcoholism. This is a moving film essay on the unfulfilled ambitions of one of America's great avant-garde literary figures.
Variant and related titles
Films on demand.
Other formats
Originally produced: NVC Arts (Firm), 1997.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Contents
Kerouac's Retreat (2:35)
Mountain Solitude (2:13)
"On the Road" (2:12)
Kerouac's Catholic Upbringing (2:46)
Exposed to the Big City (3:15)
Developing the Beat Style (2:06)
Great American Road Trip (1:38)
Idealizing the West (3:17)
Writing "On the Road" (3:19)
Pioneering Free Style Prose (2:58)
A Lonely Writer (2:09)
Kerouac's Depression (1:48)
Pursuing Enlightenment (2:12)
Kerouac's Self Loathing (2:02)
Self Destructive Behavior (4:01)
Media Misrepresentation (4:21)
Family Refuge (2:03)
Kerouac's Demise (3:19)
Credits: Jack Kerouac (1:08)
Videorecording number
7959 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Also listed under
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
NVC Arts (Firm).
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