Jack Kerouac's road [videorecording]
Subtitle: a Franco-American odyssey
By: director: Hermenegilde Chiasson ; producer: Eric Michel.
Contributors: Chiasson, Herménégilde.; Michel, Éric.; National Film Board of Canada.
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Montreal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 55
Subjects: Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969.
Notes: FOR CLASSROOM USE ONLY. Translation of Le grand Jack. Original production in French, 1987. Jack Kerouac, the novelist, revolutionized the form of American fiction and journalism. Through dramatized excerpts, period footage, and candid interviews, this film shows how Kerouac's restless seeking as a literary bohemian embodied a larger Franco-American pattern of emigration and displacement.

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