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Subject:
[NABOKV-L] [SIGHTINGS] Lolita and movies: "Letting Lolita
Laugh" V.Cuckett 2014) and "Shadow of a Double" Lara
Delage-Toriel (2010) |
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From:
Jansy Mello <jansy.mello@outlook.com> |
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Date:
8/16/2014 8:24 PM |
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To:
'Vladimir Nabokov Forum'
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"Letting
Lolita Laugh"
by victoria duckett (Deakin University) This article explores and
recontextualizes Kubrick's 1962 'Lolita' film,
arguing that it visually re-animates the
prismatic richness of Nabokov's original prose.
Identifying George Romney's 'Portrait of Mrs
Bryan Cooke' (1787) as the portrait that is
literally shot in the opening sequence, it
suggests that Kubrick was using parody and pun
in ways that we have yet to identify. |
Academia.edu Weekly Digest noreply@academia.edu
The article below (2010) can be profitably
related to it (I think): 3 | 2010 : Lolita : Examining “the Underside of the
Weave”
Lolita : Examining “the Underside of the
Weave”
Shadows and Counterpoints
Shadow of a Double: Taking a Closer Look at the
Opening of Kubrick's Lolita
Lara Delage-Toriel
Abstract | Index | Text | Bibliography | Notes | References | About
the author
ABSTRACTS
The opening sequence of Stanley Kubrick's Lolita is
one of the film's most memorable moments, one which
immediately sets a darkly humorous tone, thanks in part to
Peter Sellers' virtuoso impersonations and spirit of
improvisation. But beyond these spectacular aspects,
certain apparently marginal features in the composition of
the sequence have held our attention, notably because
their significance is not immediately perceptible. These
consist in motifs of duplication at various
levels—especially in the editing and the make-up of the
set—that offer important hermeneutic leads regarding
Kubrick's mise en scène of representation itself.