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EDNOTE. Barbara Wyllie is the author of a recent book on Nabokov and film.
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Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 10:41:00 +0100
From: Barbara Wyllie <bwyllie@ssees.ac.uk>
Reply-To: Barbara Wyllie <bwyllie@ssees.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Re: Fw: Humbert's pedophilia on film
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
The kind of scenes you describe in the book could be likened to a series of what
in film are called 'compilation cuts' - a sequence made up of a number of
rapidly changing and not necessarily related scenes/images which together
create a distinct and vital impression of a place or the sense of passing time.
Montage would also be an appropriate term. In Webster: 1 : the production of a
rapid succession of images in a motion picture to illustrate an association of
ideas; 2 a : a literary, musical, or artistic composite of juxtaposed more or
less heterogeneous elements.
Barbara Wyllie
SSEES/UCL
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From: Donald B. Johnson
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Sent: 28 April, 2005 12:47 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: Humbert's pedophilia on film
Andrew and List
1. You are correct. The word "panorama", as generally used, suggests
a continous, perhaps superficial and generalized, view quite contrary
to Nabokov's methodic details. There must be a better word for the
multiple, detailed, trans-American scenes. [Perhaps I was influenced by
an older meaning of the word. In my Webster's International 2nd
Edition: "3. ....; a mental image of a series of images or events,
etc
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Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 10:41:00 +0100
From: Barbara Wyllie <bwyllie@ssees.ac.uk>
Reply-To: Barbara Wyllie <bwyllie@ssees.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Re: Fw: Humbert's pedophilia on film
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
The kind of scenes you describe in the book could be likened to a series of what
in film are called 'compilation cuts' - a sequence made up of a number of
rapidly changing and not necessarily related scenes/images which together
create a distinct and vital impression of a place or the sense of passing time.
Montage would also be an appropriate term. In Webster: 1 : the production of a
rapid succession of images in a motion picture to illustrate an association of
ideas; 2 a : a literary, musical, or artistic composite of juxtaposed more or
less heterogeneous elements.
Barbara Wyllie
SSEES/UCL
----- Original Message -----
From: Donald B. Johnson
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Sent: 28 April, 2005 12:47 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: Humbert's pedophilia on film
Andrew and List
1. You are correct. The word "panorama", as generally used, suggests
a continous, perhaps superficial and generalized, view quite contrary
to Nabokov's methodic details. There must be a better word for the
multiple, detailed, trans-American scenes. [Perhaps I was influenced by
an older meaning of the word. In my Webster's International 2nd
Edition: "3. ....; a mental image of a series of images or events,
etc
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