Editing Beatnik (section)

==Beatniks in media==
[[Image:Thebeatniks.jpg|right|thumb|upright|Poster for ''The Beatniks'' (1960)]]
[[Image:A Bucket of Blood - Beatnik coffeehouse (1959).jpg|right|thumb|upright|A scene from [[Roger Corman]]'s ''[[A Bucket of Blood]]'' (1959) in which a character recites poetry in a beatnik coffeehouse.]]
[[Image:Nervousset.jpg|right|thumb|upright|[[Jules Feiffer]]'s ad art for the Beat musical ''[[The Nervous Set]]'' was used on the 1959 cast album (reissued in 2002).]]
*Possibly the first film portrayal of the Beat society was in the 1950 noir film ''[[D.O.A. (1950 film)|D.O.A]]'', directed by [[Rudolph Maté]].{{citation needed|date=December 2022}} In the film the main character goes to a loud San Francisco bar, where one woman shouts to the musicians: "Cool! Cool! Really cool!"  One of the characters says, "Man, am I really hip", and another replies, "You're from nowhere, nowhere!"  Lone dancers are seen moving to the beat. Some are dressed with accessories and have hairstyles that one would expect to see in much later films. Typical 1940s attire is mixed with beatnik clothing styles, particularly in one male who has a beatnik hat, long hair, and a mustache and goatee, but is still wearing a dress suit. The bartender refers to a patron as "Jive Crazy" and talks of the music driving its followers crazy. He then tells one man to "Calm down, Jack!" and the man replies, "Oh don't bother me, man. I'm being enlightened!".  The scene also demonstrates the connection to and influence of 1940s genres of African American music such as [[bebop]] on the emergence of Beat culture.  The featured band "Jive" is all-black, while the customers who express their appreciation for the music in a jargon that would come to characterize the stereotype of Beat culture are young white hipsters.
*The 1953 [[Dalton Trumbo]] film ''[[Roman Holiday]]'' starring [[Audrey Hepburn]] and [[Gregory Peck]] features a supporting character played by [[Eddie Albert]] who is a stereotypical beatnik, appearing five years before the term was coined.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://leagueofdeadfilms.com/2014/01/20/roman-holiday/|title=January 20th, 2014: Roman Holiday (1953)|date=January 20, 2014|website=Leagueofdeadfilms.com|access-date=April 28, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180428165736/https://leagueofdeadfilms.com/2014/01/20/roman-holiday/|archive-date=April 28, 2018}}</ref> He has an Eastern European surname, Radovich, and is a promiscuous photographer who wears baggy clothes, a striped T-shirt and a beard, which is mentioned four times in the screenplay.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/r/roman-holiday-script-transcript.html|title=Roman Holiday Script – Screenplay from the Audrey Hepburn movie|website=Script-o-rama.com|access-date=April 28, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020182251/http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/r/roman-holiday-script-transcript.html|archive-date=October 20, 2017}}</ref>
*The character [[Maynard G. Krebs]], played on TV by [[Bob Denver]] in ''[[The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis]]'' (1959–63), solidified the stereotype of the indolent non-conformist beatnik, which contrasted with the aggressively rebellious Beat-related images presented by popular film actors of the early and mid-1950s, notably [[Marlon Brando]] and [[James Dean]].{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}
*''[[The_Beat_Generation_(film)|The Beat Generation]]'' (1959) associated the movement with crime and violence, as did ''[[The Bloody Brood]]'' (1959) and ''[[The Beatniks (film)|The Beatniks]]'' (1960). {{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}
*An episode of ''[[The Addams Family (1964 TV series)|The Addams Family]]'' titled "The Addams Family Meets a Beatnik," broadcast January 1, 1965, features a young biker/beatnik who injures himself in an accident, and ends up staying with the Addams family. 
*[[Harry Connick Jr.]] portrays Dean, a beatnik, in [[Brad Bird]]'s film ''[[The Iron Giant]]'' (1999).<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 30, 2019 |title=The Iron Giant Came Out 20 Years Ago, and Dean is Still the Best Cartoon Crush |url=https://decider.com/2019/07/30/the-iron-giant-dean-cartoon-crush/ |access-date=2024-01-04 |language=en-US}}</ref>