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Howl: A Poetry-Movie Bridging Spontaneous Poetry and Avant-Garde Film

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QIU Shi-cun, WANG Yao-yao

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DOI:10.17265/1539-8072/2022.08.004

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Sichuan University of Arts and Science, Dazhou, China

ABSTRACT

In the 1950s, McCarthyism, characterized by anti-Communist and anti-foreign policy, was rampant throughout the United States of America. The public recitation of the poem “Howl” marks the beginning of the Beats’ rebellion against McCarthyism. As a successful poetry-movie, the film Howl bridged the gap between vision and hearing through a series of diversified presentation forms, such as documentary reenactments, archival photos, and the reconstruction of court trial scenes, thus breaking the boundary between poetry and film. As a kind of displaying the authorship of Ginsberg, the close-up pictures of typewriters repeatedly appear in the film to vividly interpret the Beat writers’ style of spontaneous composition.

KEYWORDS

Howl, poetry-movie, typewriter, spontaneous composition

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Sino-US English Teaching, August 2022, Vol. 19, No. 8, 283-288 doi:10.17265/1539-8072/2022.08.004

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