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Nabokov at the movies : film perspectives in fiction

"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
Print Book, English, ©2003
McFarland & Co., Jefferson, N.C., ©2003
x, 298 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780786416387, 0786416386
52509490
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