Media Extensions of American Beatnikism: The Cinema of Jim Jarmusch

Student: Gleb Gringauz

Educational Programme: Media Communications (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 7

Year of Graduation: 2024

This work is devoted to the study of the characteristics of the American culture of beatnikism (both the theoretical foundations of this phenomenon and the analysis of its works), as well as modern culture through the prism of neobeatnikism - a previously unstudied cultural and intellectual phenomenon of our days. The phenomenon of beatnikism is an important and integral part of American culture, which has become a reference point for many contemporary authors in various fields of art, including neobeatnikism, which was most clearly manifested in the cinema of American director Jim Jarmusch.

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