David Sterritt's Screening the Beats (2004)

Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press (book, essay), 2004.
9.25" x 6.125" x 0.625", 134 pages, hardcover with dust-jacket, ISBN 0-8093-2563-2.

David Sterritt's Screening the Beats: Media Culture and the Beat Sensibility, as published by Southern Illinois University Press (Carbondale, Illinois) in 2004. 

This is a book about the influence of the Beats on film, theory, and mass media. This is mostly Kerouac-centric, but Burroughs is mentioned and discussed in a number of places.

From the jacket: "Sterritt engages the creative and spiritual facets of the Beats, emulating their desire to evoke ephemeral aspects of human existence. Dealing with both high and low cultures as well as various subcultures, he highlights the complementary contributions to cultural creativity made by these authors. Screening the Beats grapples with paradoxes in Beat writing, in particular the conflict between spiritual purity and secular connectedness, which often materialized in the beatific bebop spontaneity, Zen-like transcendentalism, and plain hipster smarts that characterized the writings of Kerouac, Burroughs, and Ginsberg."

Contents: 

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Beats, Movies, and Ills of Postwar America
• 2. Lisped, Muxed, and Completely Flunk: Jack Kerouac Meets the Three Stooges
• 3. Desolation Angels: Kerouac, Buddhism, and Film
• 4. Revision, Prevision, and the Aura of Improvisatory Art
• 5. Constructing the Grotesque Body in Word, Image, and Sound
• Notes
• Index