IV God Damn the Repo Man

[alice wellintown]

This novel, like all Pynchon novels is set against the historical and
cultural events of the plot-period and the period of its composition
and publication. So, as we look at Gidget, who starts off as a book,
becomes a film, then TV movies, then TV programs, we are also looking
at that ecofeminism as it progresses (and it progresses in the
opposite direction) from the real life of the author, another Jewish
film man who flees Nazi Germany and comes to America (a common enough
P concern back to V. and TSI and a major concern of GR) and his real
daughter's surfer girl experiences,  to Robin Morgan's Goodbye To All
That, to International Women's Day, The Sit In at Ladies Home Journal,
to Earth Day (all happen in the plotted months of the novel 1970). The
compare and contrast, as I see it, is not only how books (Walt
Whitman's famous call for books!) and Free Press (although the violent
take overs and struggles for Press, Guardian, for example is an
exception and is actually grouped with the radical film projects and
the violence it both captures and projects) are contrasted with books
become films become TV movies become Tube (and the music, as I noted
when we argued about the working class Liverpool Lads), but also the
contrast Male and Female resistance to the MAN.