VL-IV: Chap7- Floozy with an Uzi

[Michael Bailey]

kelber wrote:
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> We can look at it as the Reagan-era co-optation (and suppression) of feminism.  A woman with a machine gun isn't threatening so long as she's sexy.  The modestly-dressed young Iraq women who've become suicide bombers are unlikely to become any man's idea of a hip feminist icon.  Charley's Angels, Lara Croft, the protagonist of Kill Bill make feminism safe for men.
>

I'm enjoying your hosting and the many points you're making.
My take on some points (ie movies vs tv - I think movies also require
massive infrastructure, at least as much so as TV.  Studios and
writers, yes, but also outlets. Not to mention audiences, actual butts
in seats.  Arrangements with numerous entrepreneurs, and job creation
further down the distribution chain - nobody gets paid to usher you to
your seat at home to watch tv)
is a little different, of course, but literature is ineluctably
subjective to some greater or lesser degree...

Your point here, though, seems right-on after I realized you meant
that it's DL's reception amongst the wedding guests that reflects the
co-optation of feminism in Reaganesque America.

DL the character herself, I think, reflects auctorial choices having
to do with contrast and complementarity to Frenesi.
The photogenic character requires protection like a gem requires a setting;
(I'd argue that this duality is almost a development of the bicameral
Pynchonian world, upper and lower rooms, refined and coarse.)
For F to receive this protection from DL makes sense during the 60s scenes.
...for DL to choose to protect 24fps reflects DLs rebellion against
her military father...

The removal of F from 24fps basically shatters the collective, almost
as if she was the "charismatic leader"
The implications of F being the de facto charismatic leader of the
roving counter-media,
in contradistinction to the doomed and futile PR3, with Weed out in front,
and the survival of 24fps product which would be a POV, or in physical
terms all that footage.
Rich with meaning, Vineland is.


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