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Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 3:04 AM
Subject: VN bibliography
Dear List,
This is to announce my new monograph on Nabokov and
film, due for publication by McFarland & Co. this autumn - Nabokov at
the Movies: Film Perspectives in Fiction.
The book explores Nabokov's deployment of the
themes, styles and techniques of cinema in his fiction, from the early Russian
stories to Transparent Things, drawing parallels with contemporary
movements in film (Russian avant-garde, German Expressionism, American
noir, the New Hollywood) and the cinematic fiction of
American writers from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Don DeLillo and Bret Easton
Ellis. The study offers new readings of major texts (e.g. Lolita and
Ada), set against the context of America's ongoing preoccupation with
cinema, and considers how far Nabokov can be considered as a key figure in late
twentieth-century American literature by his manipulation of its most potent
cultural medium.
The title is available for pre-order on
amazon.
Barbara Wyllie
SSEES/UCL
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CONTENTS:
1. Nabokov and Film: Positive versus
Negative.
2. The Impact of German and Soviet Film on
Nabokov’s Early Russian Fiction.
3. A Medium Invaded: Cinema and Cinematics in
The Great Gatsby, King, Queen, Knave and Laughter in the
Dark.
4. A Common Vision? Traces of Noir in
Nabokov’s Russian Fiction and American Writing of the 1930s.
5. Images of Terror and Desire: Lolita
and the American Cinematic Experience, 1939–1952.
6. Dream Distortions: Film and Visual Deceit
in ‘The Assistant Producer’, Bend Sinister and
Ada.
7. Altered Perspectives and Visual Disruption
in Transparent Things and American Film of the Early
1970s.
8. Shimmers on a Screen: Cinematic
Hyperreality in Recent American Fiction and Film