>>13505 (OP)
The go to for this stuff is probably Pynchon. The most closely related and readily linkable would be: Inherent Vice. Basically, you can pretty much pair up to Pynchon and pull a thesis outta your ass on damn near anything. The more freakish the better.
A very straightforward suggestion, shouldn't be hard at all to connect with the movie and thesisize something simple: Bukowski's Pulp.
If you want to dive in and entertain your professor with the really unexpected, you need to find the work of a serious hare-core literary prick who wasn't keen on the whole postmodernism shtick. Not keen, as in not liking them at all because the postmodernist style of novels were moving toward a likeness of piss boring encyclopedias. Not liking them at all, as in would occasionally write a postmodern novel just to prove this style can be wrought with proper readerly fun. So, go have a look at Gore Vidal. Linking to Duluth is a home run in the making, but you're gonna have to work for it.
