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|    Elenor Backus to All    |
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|    01 Dec 23 13:20:03    |
      From: backuselenor@gmail.com              All of Drooker's adaptations aspire to a fidelity with the mood of the       original, though in different ways. With these three renditions, one could       surmise that the illustrator is done with "Howl." But news of recent projects       by others indicates that        contemporary cinema is far from done with Allen Ginsberg. Walter Salles' On       the Road is due for release autumn 2012, with Tom Sturridge playing Ginsberg       analogue, Carlo Marx. And John Krokidas' Kill Your Darlings, due in 2013, will       feature Daniel        Radcliffe in the role of Ginsberg. With such intense media production, Allen       Ginsberg (and the other Beat poets) will be well on the way to becoming an       intertextually, self-reinforcing icon. For an audience with intimate knowledge       of Ginsberg's life and        work, the Beat poets and the "Beat Generation," I have argued that       photorealistic visual images, combined with an attendant impulse to portray,       in particular, the author of the poem in the popular culture "iconic register"       open up for "trivialization."        This dilutes "authenticity" with the insertion of an ironic tension that would       be available to the cognoscenti, who are equipped as a "discursive community"       to muster intertextual and extratextual references and thereby receive the       images and texts in a        more complex way, a far cry from the "mind to mind" ideal of the Beat       aesthetics.              Photo Album: Wall Street Bull, Part Three       Download https://tradlenjutod.blogspot.com/?vf=2wHnAa                      eebf2c3492              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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