{"product_id":"9780786416387-nabokov-at-the-movies","title":"Nabokov at the Movies","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFilm Perspectives in Fiction. In situating Nabokov within America's literary and cinematic traditions, this book throws new light on Nabokov's treatment of film in his work, focusing on major texts set against key developments in American film and fiction from the 1920s onwards. \u003cp\u003e   Vladimir Nabokov claimed, speaking of \u003ci\u003eLaughter in the Dark:\u003c\/i\u003e \"I wanted to write the entire book as if it were a film.\" The relevance of film to the novelist's art remains a preoccupying question in recent American fiction: writers must decide whether to acknowledge the medium that is a defining element of America's collective unconscious and, if so, how to deploy it successfully toward a written work of fiction. In situating Nabokov within America's literary and cinematic traditions, this book throws new light on Nabokov's treatment of film in his work, focusing on major texts set against key developments in American film and fiction from the 1920s on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   Parallels are drawn with the cinematic fiction of American writers such as John Dos Passos and F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose treatment of film in literature can be compared to Nabokov's Russian works. Major influences on Nabokov's early Russian fiction include experimental German and Soviet film, while his later English work demonstrates an affinity with contemporary American fiction and film, from 1940s noir to the New Hollywood of the early '70s. In order to create \u003ci\u003eLolita\u003c\/i\u003e's heroine, Nabokov had to acquaint himself with her world, a postwar America dominated by Hollywood; she appears as a femme fatale, fugitive moll, and screwball heroine. Van Veen, on the other hand, manipulates the cinematic mode as a narrative and representational tool, which in turn becomes integral to processes of memory and the imagination. A variety of works by Nabokov and others are explored, with particular emphasis on \u003ci\u003eLaughter in the Dark,\u003c\/i\u003e \"The Assistant Producer,\" \u003ci\u003eLolita, Ada, Transparent Things,\u003c\/i\u003e as well as \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby, The Big Sleep, The Moviegoer\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAmerican Psycho.\u003c\/i\u003e Film stills, a detailed filmography and bibliography complete the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41675594203233,"sku":"9780786416387","price":29.57,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_21569785.jpg?v=1715343952","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780786416387-nabokov-at-the-movies","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}