Kerouac - A Film By John Antonelli VHS Video Tape

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Actors: Peter Coyote, Cindy Alwan, David Andrews, Leon Benedict, William S. Burroughs

Director: John Antonelli

Producers: John Antonelli, Marilyn Smith, Will Parrinello

Writers: Frank Cervarich, Jack Kerouac, John Antonelli, John Tytell

Run time: 1 hour and 18 minutes

Release date: September 1, 1998

Studio: Mystic Fire Video

Jack Kerouac found his literary style in Thomas Wolfe and Walt Whitman, and the beat of his free-flowing prose in jazz. An increasingly mystical figure, he searched for answers by bumming across the continent, traveling in Mexico and settling in San Francisco during the heyday of its literary renaissance, experimenting with drugs and Zen Buddhism. Kerouac's life is examined through rare documentary footage, including TV appearances with Steve Allen and William Buckley, interviews with his contemporaries, and dramatized scenes from his life and works. 

Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (/ˈkɛru.æk/; March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Of French-Canadian ancestry, Kerouac was raised in a French-speaking home in Lowell, Massachusetts. He "learned English at age six and spoke with a marked accent into his late teens." During World War II, he served in the United States Merchant Marine; he completed his first novel at the time, which was published more than 40 years after his death. His first published book was The Town and the City (1950), and he achieved widespread fame and notoriety with his second, On the Road, in 1957. It made him a beat icon, and he went on to publish 12 more novels and numerous poetry volumes. Kerouac died in 1969. Since then, his literary prestige has grown, and several previously unseen works have been published. Kerouac is recognized for his style of stream of consciousness spontaneous prose. Thematically, his work covers topics such as his Catholic spirituality, jazz, travel, promiscuity, life in New York City, Buddhism, drugs, and poverty. He became an underground celebrity and, with other Beats, a progenitor of the hippie movement, although he remained antagonistic toward some of its politically radical elements. He has a lasting legacy, greatly influencing many of the cultural icons of the 1960s, including Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Jerry Garcia and the Doors.

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