Femenist reading of IV

[alice wellintown]

Not Crumb but Stephanie Rothman. In the end, Feminist Film Theory,
Exploitation Film Theory, is the skin. Pynchon dives deeper, into
Critical Theory, plays with Semiotics and Psychoanalysis, but
ultimately, as he notes in his Slow Learer Introduction, it is not
race or gender or post-colonial Otherness that interests him, but
Vlass. So a Marxist reading is most fruitful. It's about Labor.

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> Have to say i more or less agree with "He Who Would Be Alice."
>
> "Inherent Vice" is just overloaded with feminist markers—Ida Lupino and the
> "Pussy Eater's Special" among others—little subplots that actively address
> feminist themes. Of course there is a fair bit of Russ Meyer in the mix in
> Vineland and to a lesser but similar extent, in IV. It's a little hard to
> get these two particular conceptual frameworks to jibe together in a single
> mind, but there you are.
>
> Not that I'm an Anti-Semenist, mind you.
>
> Next up: Feminist readings of R. Crumb . . .
>
> On Feb 18, 2010, at 7:29 PM, alice wellintown wrote:
>
>> Well, you have to dive a little deeper into that muff. This stuff
>> ain't floating on the surface.
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 9:21 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> more like a Semenist reading in my book
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:36 PM, alice wellintown
>>> <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps nothing Pynchon has written to date  . . .
>
>>> http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/61/61womeninprison.html
>