Howl
«Interviewer: What's the "beat generation"?
Allen Ginsberg: There's no "beat generation". It's just a bunch of guys, trying to get published».
What:
Howl.
Who:
Rob Epstein, Jeffery Friedman.
With:
James Franco, David Strathairn, Jon Hamm.
When:
2010.
Where:
USA.
How:
Colour, Black&White, Live action, Animation, Medium, Reality, Fast, Script, Language (English)
Why:
What about Allen Ginsberg, the most representative poet of the American poetry of the late 20th century?
What is it like being an homosexual poet in a puritan and repressive society during the Fifties in the United States?
What if your most important poem, Howl, has been charged with obscenity and your editor has been taken to a trial for it? Who's really capable of defining limits of the poetic expression?
What is the “beat generation”?
Extra:
Howl and other poems, Ginsberg's first work, was published in 1956 by City Light Books, the publishing house owned by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, editor, poet and Ginsberg's friend. The trial really took place in 1957, involving Ferlinghetti.