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From: Barbara Wyllie
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
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
