tube and tubal litigation then and now

[Michael Bailey]

Laura wrote:
> If VL is a novel about social control and encroaching fascism,

see, there again, you make a good point yet still leave the door open
with that "if".
Great hosting!

For me, it's a pastoral novel about love, but as you say, there
is an AWFUL lot of social control and encroaching fascism in the mix

> it's kind of interesting to look at distinctions he might make between film and TV.
> He sees Hollywood as an active manipulator of social views, with the ability to make people >think bad guys are good guys and vice versa.  At the same time,
> film-making doesn't imply a huge power-structure behind it:  look at Frenesi's film collective.

the actual making of the film is done economically; the distribution
is very limited, though.  Milton's "fit audience though few" boils
down to Prairie.

>TV requires both a monolithic power structure for transmission and marketing, while actively manipulating peoples' views, and rendering them lethargic and unable to act.
>

although, the possibilities of pirate tv haven't been fully tapped...

> That's a simplistic rendering, but it's only one aspect of Pynchon's views.  He's clearly a movie buff, and whether he loves it or hates it, he's clearly watched a lot of TV (and lent his voice to The Simpsons).  As things stand today, Hollywood seems to have little power to influence ideas, opting instead to pander to its marketer's perception of what the public thinks.  It's apparently no longer permitted to have a pro-abortion stance in a Hollywood movie (Knocked Up, Juno, etc.), not because Hollywood wants the public to be anti-abortion, but because the Hollywood powers-that-be are terrified of the Christian right.


just so: Hector's friend Triggerman's plans for the movie are blatant
rolling-over for anti-drug propagandists...(although plans for the
treatment actually are realized in the book in a way, prefiguring the
frame tale of Get Shorty...
ie, the book is that movie.  sort of)(and Zoyd's viewpoint subverts
the ostensible moral)

> TV (or at least, cable TV) doesn't seem to be as constricted, at least for the time being.  It was >TV, also, that brought events ranging from the Viet Nam war to Hurricane Katrina to peoples' >consciousness, and ultimately energized a lot of people to get off their couches and protest.
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Aaron Sorkin's work on TV even energized network airspace

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