The White Noise Meander moment of restful contemplation

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   January 26, 2020

   Ogami Itto

   Enjoying reading about DeLillo. While hydrating.
   As well as the influence of modernist fiction, DeLillo has also cited the influence of jazz music – “guys like Ornette Coleman and Mingus and Coltrane and Miles Davis” – and postwar cinema: “Antonioni and Godard and Truffaut, and then in the ’70s came the Americans, many of whom were influenced by the Europeans: Kubrick, Altman, Coppola, Scorsese and so on. I don’t know how they may have affected the way I write, but I do have a visual sense.”[9] On the influence of film, particularly European cinema, on his work, DeLillo has said, “European and Asian cinemas of the 1960s shaped the way I think and feel about things. At that time I was living in New York, I didn’t have much money, didn’t have much work, I was living in one room…I was a man in a small room. And I went to the movies a lot, watching Bergman, Antonioni, Godard. When I was little, in the Bronx, I didn’t go to the cinema, and I didn’t think of the American films I saw as works of art. Perhaps, in an indirect way, cinema allowed me to become a writer.”
   From and more:
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_DeLillo

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   January 26, 2020

   Dr. Vitz

   In ’94, I presented a paper on Great Jones Street on a DeLillo panel at the North East MLA conference.One of the other panel members did a paper on White Noise. Turns out he and I were both ABD at the time, with similar interest, and we got to talking, even stayed in email contact for a time, but then lost touch. But in weird twists of fate, that other scholar has been one of my supervisors for the last 7.5 years

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