Naked Lens: Beat Cinema (2008)

Berkeley, California: Soft Skull Press (book, non-fiction, 1st thus), 2008.
8.5" x 5.5" x 0.625", 252 pages, 1st thus softcover.

Jack Sargeant's Naked Lens: Beat Cinema, originally published in 1997 by Creation Books (London), this later edition published by Soft Skull Press (Berkeley, CA.) in 2008.  A rich exploration of the intersections between "Beat" authors and film.

This contains a number of sections (all in the second part of the book "The War Universe of William S. Burroughs") that are heavily centered on William S. Burroughs:

• Chapter 10: "Image Hoard", pp. 163-194, which discusses the collaborations between Buroughs, Brion Gysin, Antony Balch, and Ian Sommerville. This also includes interviews with Brion Gysin and Genesis (Breyer) P-Orridge, and the Balch Ongoing Guerilla Conditions.
• Chapter 11: "Cut-Up/Burroughs/Punk/Cut-Up", pp. 195-208, which is framed by Klaus Maeck and his 1984-released film Decoder, in which Burroughs appears.
• Chapter 12: "David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch", pp. 209-214, which discusses the Cronenberg adaptation of Burroughs Naked Lunch.
• Chapter 13: "Burroughs Animated", pp. 215-218, which covers the animated sequences of Ah Pook Is Here and The Junky's Christmas.

There is also some mention of Burroughs in the section on the film Chappaqua, at page 145.

Multiple images of Burroughs can be found throughout the book.

Contents: 

• Foreword by Richard Marshall
• Introduction by Jack Sargeant
• Part One: Searching for a Free Vision
• Chapter One: Pull My Daisy
• Notes on Pull My Daisy
• An Interview with Alfred Leslie
• An Interview with Robert Frank
• Chapter Two: John Cassavetes' Shadows
• Chapter Three: Wild Men & Outcast Visionaries
• Notes on the San Francisco Renaissance
• Ron Rice & Taylor Mead: Flower Thieves & Dharma Bums
• An Interview with Taylor Mead
• Chapter Four: Eyeball Head Poem: Harry Smith
• Chapter Five: Cobra Camp: Jack Smith
• Chapter Six: An Interview with Jonas Mekas
• Chapter Seven: Wholly Communion
• 'A Few Poets Trying to Be Natural'
• An Interview with Peter Whitehead
• Chapter Eight: Conrad Rooks' Chappaqua
• Chapter Nine: An Interview with Allen Ginsberg
• Part Two: The War Universe of William S. Burroughs
• Chapter Ten: Image Hoard
• Cinematic Experiments & Collaborations: Balch/Burroughs/Gysin/Sommerville
• An Interview with Brion Gysin (Paris, October 1983)
• Thee Films: An Account by Genesis P-Orridge
• Ongoing Guerilla Conditions
• Chapter Eleven: Cut-Ups/Burroughs/Punk/Cut-Ups
• Electronic Revolutionaries
• An Interview with Klaus Maeck
• Chapter Twelve: Cronenberg's Naked Lunch
• Chapter Thirteen: Burroughs Animated
• Appendices
• Mainstream/Hollywood & Beat Culture
• Notes on Gus Van Sant
• Shocking Beatniks & Beatsploitation
• Notes on Charles Bukowski
• Affiliated Works
• Beats on Film
• Herbert Huncke
• Bibliography
• Index of Films
• Picture Credits
• Film Sources
• Author Biographies