I wanted to comment
on Tom Leclair’s Closing the Loop because
I enjoyed how he routinely compared DeLillo’s White Noise to piles of garbage but I am leaning more towards John
Duvall’s ridiculously long titled The
(Super) Marketplace Of Images: Television As Unmediated Mediation In DeLillo’s
White Noise. Mainly because he focuses strongly on my favorite character
from White Noise, yeah you guessed it TV!
Duvall mentions the TV as a character and how it buts in on
several conversations and how the Mink character speaks primarily in Quotes
from the TV (448-449). The majority of this essay focuses on Murray and how
creepy and horrible he is. He is the little devil on Jack’s shoulder and Jack
is a dimwitted idiot who can’t see through his incredibly thin disguise. Duvall
wrote this essay in the mid or early 90’s he mentions the Gulf War and the L.A.
riots. He connects the television coverage of these events to DeLillo’s
thoughts on media coverage throughout White
Noise.
WORKS CITED
Duvall, John N. The (SUPER)MARKETPLACE OF IMAGES: TELEVISION AS INMEDIATED MEDIATION IN DeLILLO'S WHITE NOISE. White Noise. New York City: Penguin Group, 1998. 432-55. Print.
I thought the article did a good job of pointing out motifs
and language of White Noise. I could
easily find something to use on the essay from either of those points of
view. I already thought of the TV as a
character when I read White Noise this article points out many of the times
this theme appears in the book.
WORKS CITED
Duvall, John N. The (SUPER)MARKETPLACE OF IMAGES: TELEVISION AS INMEDIATED MEDIATION IN DeLILLO'S WHITE NOISE. White Noise. New York City: Penguin Group, 1998. 432-55. Print.
I believe in today's society, tv has become a character in our everyday life. Kind of like part of the family. I, sadly, spend alot of quality time with my kids watching tv. They really want nothing to do with hanging with their parents anymore so I take what time I can get! People depend on their tv for almost everything.
ReplyDeleteI love, too, that the essay shows Murray as a bad guy. I hadn't looked at him in that sense and while reading the essay, it made more sense.
I like how you choose his easy because he talks about TV. As you stated, he wrote this in the early 90's but we are now in 2013 and I also think in many peoples likes the TV is a character in lives, even more then in the story. Your review was funny, good job.
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