Nabokov at the movies
Subtitle: film perspectives in fiction
By: Barbara Wyllie.
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 -- Knowledge -- Motion pictures.; Motion pictures and literature.; Motion pictures in literature.; Motion pictures -- United States.
Description: "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."--Jacket.
Notes: Filmography: p. 275-279.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-293) and index.
Table of contents: title: Nabokov and film : positive versus negative; title: The impact of German and Soviet film on Nabokov's early Russian fiction; title: A medium invaded : cinema and cinematics in The Great Gatsby, King, queen, knave, and Laughter in the dark; title: A common vision? : traces of noir in Nabokov's Russian fiction and American writing of the 1930s; title: Images of terror and desire : Lolita and the American cinematic experience, 1939-1952; title: Dream distortions : film and visual deceit in The assistant producer, Bend sinister, and Ada; title: Altered perspectives and visual disruption in Transparent things and American film of the early 1970s; title: Shimmers on a screen : cinematic hyperreality in recent American fiction and film.