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Nabokov at the movies : film perspectives in fiction / Barbara Wyllie.
Van Pelt Library PG3476.N3 Z95 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wyllie, Barbara.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977--Knowledge and learning--Motion pictures.
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich.
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion pictures and literature.
- Motion pictures in literature.
- Motion pictures--United States.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- x, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, [2003]
- Summary:
- Vladimir Nabokov said of Laughter in the Dark: "I wanted to write the entire book as if it were a film." What is the relevance of film to the novelist's art? In an examination of this perennially preoccupying question, this book situates Nabokov within America's literary and cinematic traditions and offers a comparative analysis of Nabokov's literature. The purpose is to explore how movies and books of the same period relate to, and sometimes influenced, his writing. Nabokov's early Russian fiction shows the influence of experimental German and Soviet film. His English work echoes contemporary American film from screwball comedy to the Hollywood images that combined to become Lolita -- part femme fatale, part fugitive moll, part screwball heroine. This book explores a variety of works by Nabokov and others, with particular emphasis on The Big Sleep, The Great Gatsby, Laughter in the Dark, Lolita, Transparent Things, Sanctuary, and Ada. Film stills, a detailed filmography and a bibliography complete the book.
- Contents:
- Nabokov and film : positive versus negative
- The impact of German and Soviet film on Nabokov's early Russian fiction
- A medium invaded : cinema and cinematics in The Great Gatsby, King, queen, knave, and Laughter in the dark
- A common vision? : traces of noir in Nabokov's Russian fiction and American writing of the 1930s
- Images of terror and desire : Lolita and the American cinematic experience, 1939-1952
- Dream distortions : film and visual deceit in The assistant producer, Bend sinister, and Ada
- Altered perspectives and visual disruption in Transparent things and American film of the early 1970s
- Shimmers on a screen : cinematic hyperreality in recent American fiction and film.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-293) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0786416386
- OCLC:
- 52509490
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