Question: GR and music

[David Elliott]

Cinematic Auguries of the Third Reich in Gravity's Rainbow by David Cowart 

http://scholarcommons.sc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1269&context=engl_facpub 

    On Wednesday, November 16, 2016 5:24 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
 

 http://chiseler.org/post/77291395550/the-dark-side-of-shirley-temple
In 1973, Thomas Pynchon published what is considered by many to be one of the greatest novels ever written, Gravity’s Rainbow. Now, among its myriad storylines and countless memorable scenes, one stands out among all the others as perhaps the most notorious. About halfway through the novel, we’re introduced to Bianca..Without going into all the preceding narrative details, let’s just say Bianca is first described as “a knockout, alright, 11 or 12, dark and lovely…” She is in fact, if I am reading my contextual clues correctly, roughly 16, and makes her appearance during a drunken orgy scene aboard a yacht called the Anubis: “…{F}unseekers crowded eagerly around a cleared space where Bianca now stands pouting, her little red frock halfway up her slender thighs, with black lace petticoats peeping from beneath the hem…”Urged on by her mother, Margherita, she sings “On the Good Ship Lollipop” to the horny crowd while performing a dead-on Shirley Temple impression. Her mother then demands she sing “Animal Crackers in My Soup.” Bianca refuses, and a reveler shouts “Super Animals in My Crack!”—a line which has stuck with me ever since.
On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 4:08 PM, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

Looking through the film references section of the GR wiki, it looks like the only references to an actual film is, of course, King Kong. And there's a reference to the son ( not capitalized) of Frankenstein. He mentions Cecil B. Demille, the Marx Brothers, and offhandedly, Bela Lugosi. I guess clips of various German expressionist movies from the 20s would best capture the book.
Laura 
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János Széky <miksaapja at gmail.com> wrote:

A musician friend is member of a group which creates improvised  accompaniment to film montages without soundtrack, nickelodeon-style. He chose GR as a theme for his next concert. He asked for a comprehensive essay about references to films in the book. Can you help? 

Thanks in advance, 

János



   
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