All of Drooker's adaptations aspire to a fidelity with the mood of the original, though in different ways. With these three renditions, one could surmise that the illustrator is done with "Howl." But news of recent projects by others indicates that contemporary cinema is far from done with Allen Ginsberg. Walter Salles' On the Road is due for release autumn 2012, with Tom Sturridge playing Ginsberg analogue, Carlo Marx. And John Krokidas' Kill Your Darlings, due in 2013, will feature Daniel Radcliffe in the role of Ginsberg. With such intense media production, Allen Ginsberg (and the other Beat poets) will be well on the way to becoming an intertextually, self-reinforcing icon. For an audience with intimate knowledge of Ginsberg's life and work, the Beat poets and the "Beat Generation," I have argued that photorealistic visual images, combined with an attendant impulse to portray, in particular, the author of the poem in the popular culture "iconic register" open up for "trivialization." This dilutes "authenticity" with the insertion of an ironic tension that would be available to the cognoscenti, who are equipped as a "discursive community" to muster intertextual and extratextual references and thereby receive the images and texts in a more complex way, a far cry from the "mind to mind" ideal of the Beat aesthetics.
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