How has TV affected TP's writing??? A different kind of thread...

[matthew.percy at utoronto.ca]

There is a really excellent discussion of film in _Gr_ and television in 
_Vineland_ in Brian McHale's _Constructing Postmodernism_ if anyone's 
interested.

 On Wed, 10 Jul 1996, Grant White wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> This has to be the longest thread name I've seen this week. You got a 
> point there about GR being a cinematic novel and Vineland a TV. I would 
> have put COL49 in there as well. Yet for mine, I don't really know that 
> TRP writes the TV as well as he did the cinema, or even as well as some 
> other writers do (Don DeLillo's Mao II leaps to mind) or maybe its all in 
> the way he sees the medium. God help us though if Oprah and her ilk come 
> to "inspire" him. :)
> 
> While I'm at it, as an antipodean, I read my mail when the rest of you 
> sleep. I must admit that I do envy you guys proximity and the thought of 
> crashing a Lotion gig to spot the man in the baggy pants. But I enclose 
> my address in case any of you are in Aus and are desperate for a home brew.
> 
> 92 Corlette St
> Cooks Hill 2300
> Newcastle, NSW
> Australia
> ph 6149 265583
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> GW 
> 
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