Every Thomas Pynchon Novel, Briefly Ranked

[Dave Monroe]

Uh, point being, B&W, you know, like photos/film of ancient Rome ...

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 4:34 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> ... a favorite, and I THINK (obliquely) related example, is how
> Gladiator (2000) begins in black and white, then "fades" into (the
> silvery, washed out) color (of most contemporary war movies--I first
> noticed that with Saving Private Ryan (1998), + then "confirmed" it w/
> Three Kings (1999)).  And then lets loose w/ a firefight (?!) of
> flaming arrows reminiscent of the tracer bullets of Apocalypse Now
> (1979) and/or Return of the Jedi (1983).
>
> I've heard more than once someone (a comedian? Jerry Seinfeld? On
> Seinfeld (1989 - 1998)) commenting on how WWII is always in B&W, but
> the Civil War is always in color, but ...
>
> ... but point well taken.  Half of V., most of GR, VL, M&D, ATD, IV +
> BE are all, in their historiographic metafictional way(s), "historical
> fiction," both in terms of genre, + in terms of the context of they
> publication.  But M&D really DOES put it in yr face, so ...
>
> http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/Literary_Criticism/postmodernism/Hutcheon_outline.html
>
> The REAL issue w/ those rankings, however, I would think, would be,
> well, those rankings ...
>
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 4:06 AM, Jamie McKittrick <jamiemckit at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Interesting that only M&D is referred to as "Pynchon doing historical
>> fiction" when practically all of his novels are "historical fiction"? Is
>> there some kind of unspoken collective-consciousness boundary where we say
>> 'everything prior to WWI is historical, everything else is modern'?
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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