Now that the American Empire, is officially dead, can we talk about the great novel, also known the film or /tv/ that best embodies the american experience?
JR by William Gaddis is the "great American novel".>J R Vansant is an 11-year-old schoolboy who obscures his identity through payphone calls and postal money orders in order to parlay penny stock holdings into a fortune on paper. The novel broadly satirizes what Gaddis called "the American dream turned inside out".[3] One critic called it "the greatest satirical novel in American literature."[4] Novelist Louis Auchincloss thought it "worthy of Swift.">The writing style of J R is intended to mimic Gaddis's view of contemporary society: "a chaos of disconnections, a blizzard of noise."[6] The novel is told almost entirely in dialogue, and there is often little indication (other than conversational context) of which character is speaking. (Gaddis later said he did this in order to make the reader a collaborator in the process of creating the characters.[7]) There are also no chapters, with transitions between scenes occurring by way of shifts in focalization: for example, a character who is in a meeting may leave the meeting, get in his car, and drive off, passing another character, who becomes the subject of the next scene without any break in the continuity of the narration (though the novel is written in a discontinuous or fragmentary tone). The novel is thus broken only into French scenes (or perhaps "French chapters"). Gaddis later advised the reader not to put too much effort into figuring out each word but to read the novel at a normal talking speed; "it was the flow that I wanted," he said, "for the readers to read and be swept along—to participate. And enjoy it. And occasionally chuckle, laugh along the way."
Blue Velvet
>America is dead because I said soRent free, obsessed, etc.
>>217435817american hegemony is certainly over
>>217435712Deer Hunter, Heaven's Gate, IAWL, Imitation of Life, Wizard of Oz.
>>217435845>hey you know that country that just walked into a country, exploded a mausoleum and walked out with that country's president? they do not currently own this entire planet.
>>217435712Gummo
Cast it
Are non-America anons going to list all the great movies, or anticipated themes/works/VIPs, from their future overlords on the list: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa? What great films/novelistic films do they hope for, as the new BRICS Empire/Experiment Begins?
>>217435712>Great American NovelThe Great Gatsby>Great American FilmBack to the Future >Great American AlbumPurple Rain
>>217436517they're calling him The King of the Plebs
>>217435892thousands of iranians are dead because trump told them to protest until we help them and then our color revolution failed
>>217436079I liked Factotum and Post Office better. Hollywood is more relevant to /tv/
same people making the same thread for the same posters
>>217436557who the fuck cares?~Tim Dillon
>>217436517Those aren't necessarily "the best" art. They just best represent America and its values.
>>217436517Nigga you couldn't pick Gone With The Wind or something?
>>217436613if that's the criteria then your list should be>Of Mice and Men>Easy Rider>The Marshall Mathers LP
no questionthe illusion and mythology of freedom reined in on all sides from the beginning by a structure of rational considerations that prevents you from ever expressing it
>>217436517>Purple RainNah faggot it’s Sign O The Times if we’re talking Prince and representation of America as a whole
All these eurosharts thinking they can discuss our shit lmao
>>217436703that's fair
>>217435712Love this movie! I am gonna be a star!!!
>>217436488>beginsHasn't it been a thing for ages?
>>217436703This. It pisses me off so much when list-icles have Purple Rain as his best. You'd think Rolling Stone would at least know PR was just his best selling and, honestly, inferior to even 1999.
>>217438920Critics usually rank Sign of the times very high in all-time rankings at least
>>217435712this?
