"Naked Lens is a vital collection of essays and interviews focusing on the most significant interfaces between the Beat writers, Beat culture and cinema; films by, featuring, or inspired by: William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Robert Frank, Alfred Leslie, Charles Bukowski, Brion Gysin, Antony Balch, Ron Rice, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jonas Mekas, Jack Smith, Bob Dylan, Andy Warhol, Harry Smith, Gregory Corso, John Cassavetes, Gus Van Sant, Peter Whitehead and many others."--Jacket.