Tressell, Ellison, Pynchon: Emulsion & Petrifying Liquids or Painting the Roses Red

[Mark Kohut]

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   Every reader of either knows a film. (Even Paul Schrader, scriptwriter, started seeing them in his late teens. ) Annotations help with
all specific allusions but the concept of a film, as the concept of theater, matters in 'getting' essential themes of GR. 
 
And AtD, where TRP's perspective on photography is also embedded.    



So, if the young scholar has got it right and not knowing film prevents a reader of GR from an appreciation of the masterpiece,  
should one simply forgo reading it and read 
AGTD? 
AGTD, were it annotated, would need quite few entries on photography and technic, and image making, moving and fixed,  
but the encyclopedia of movie making, so essential to GR, is not, obviously, so essential to the later and greater masterpiece. 
That is, at first,  
we may not appreciate how so much painting and flm and photography, the technic, the chemistry, is essential to both. 

And, since P writes about labor. His work on painting, photography, and film are all reeled into his labor themes. 




 



http://www.academia.edu/2038506/Still_Moving_Against_the_Day_Pynchons_Graphic_Impulse
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