"How the First World War Changed Movies Forever"

[Richard Romeo]

I saw that david. but I found the article on Elaine Scarry in the magazine 
section of interest, ( profile of this english professor getting all mixed 
up in scientific questions regarding airplane crashes) too.  Though her 
claim that the literature she was reading wasn't discussing or describing 
pain in any meaningful way was a bit odd.  I suppose she was only speaking 
of the Victorians and Shakespeares.

Rich


>From: Dave Monroe <monroe at mpm.edu>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: "How the First World War Changed Movies Forever"
>Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 13:31:09 -0600
>
>... sorry if someone's already posted this, but today's digest hasn't
>come down the line yet, so ... nice article in the "Arts and Leisure"
>section of yesterday's New York Times on "How the First World War
>Changed Movies Forever."  In a nutshell:
>
>... the Great War was the first to be fought before the motion picture
>camera. In the field, reconnaisance became airborne and cinematic; at
>home, propaganda leapt from the page to the screen. The effects were so
>far-reaching, argues Paul Virilio in his often-cited book "War and
>Cinema," that the war zone itself may be thought of as a kind of film.
>On the front, perceptions became accelerated, discontinuous, mechanized,
>as if the soldiers' eyes had turned into cameras. From this condition,
>there was to be no release; after 1918, cinema's shock techniques
>continued wartime perception by other means.
>
>Stuart Klawans, "How the First World War Changed Movies Forever."
>     New York Times, Sunday, November 19th, 2000.
>
>Online @ http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/19/arts/19KLAW.html.
>
>See as well the deservedly "oft-cited"
>
>Virilio, Paul.  War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception.
>     Trans. Patrick Camilier.  London and New York: Verso, 1989.
>
>Nice online interview transcript on "Future War" and said 'logistics of
>perception" @
>
>http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Watson_Institute/programs/gs/VirtualY2K/futurewar.html
>
>Quite enjoyed that "Hillbilly and Jazz" article as well, Don.  Passed it
>on to a friend of mine with his very own "hillbilly" band, who esp.
>enjoyed Louis Armstrong's comment about bebop: "weird chords which don't
>mean nothin' and no melody to remember and no beat to dance to" ...
>

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