by Bryan Waterman | Apr 7, 2011 | Books, Film, Neighborhood Scenes, People, Writing New York
A guide to posts we’ve written in past years about Ginsberg’s Howl and the history of hipsters in New York: In last year’s roundup post, I offered additional thoughts on some contexts I’d brought up in lecture but hadn’t explored fully:...
by Bryan Waterman | Sep 24, 2010 | Complete, Film
Howl, directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (previously best known as the documentarians behind The Celluloid Closet [1995]), opens in limited release today, showing at Angelika, Clearview Chelsea, and Lincoln Plaza. I managed to catch a preview last Monday,...
by Bryan Waterman | Jul 12, 2010 | People |
“who jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge this actually happened and walked away unknown and forgotten into the ghostly daze of Chinatown” Short obit from the Times. Previously on PWHNY.
by Bryan Waterman | May 17, 2010 | Film, Teaching |
Today I begin teaching a two-week intensive undergrad seminar on New York’s Downtown Scenes, 1960-80. The course meets four hours a day, five days a week. It promises to be a little intense. To set the stage, today we’ll discuss Ginsberg’s Howl, talk...
by Bryan Waterman | Apr 7, 2010 | Writing New York
This morning in lecture I mentioned that I’d be posting links to some additional discussion relevant to our discussion of Ginsberg’s Howl and its multiple cultural contexts. Though most of the lecture was devoted to situating Ginsberg, following Ric Burns,...
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