Vineland TV Guide

[Dave Monroe]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:19 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Of little use but maybe of a little interest, here's my TV Guide to
> VL. Includes all programming real and fictional, though omitting the
> countless references to the genres of cop dramas, medical shows, news
> reports, Movies of the Week etc through which most characters frame
> their experiences....

Movies in Vineland

Film and filmmaking was a major theme in Gravity's Rainbow -- and
clearly, Pynchon's interest in the cinema has not flagged. There are
more explicit film references in Vineland than in any previous Pynchon
novel. This tends to underscore the possibility that the novel is, in
fact, itself a movie. Some of the films are imaginary "movies for TV"
-- usually in the form of The Something-or-Other Story with
Somebody-or-Other. Real movies are invariably followed by a bracketed
date -- probably a satirical takeoff on academic film criticism.

http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/intro.htm

Also, nice lstings of songs, as well as charcater/place/band names,
though NOT of the teevee shows.  Thanks as always, John ...