Nabokov Noir : : Cinematic Culture and the Art of Exile / / Luke Parker.
Nabokov Noir places Vladimir Nabokov's early literary career—from the 1920s to the 1940s—in the context of his fascination with silent and early sound cinema and the chiaroscuro darkness and artificial brightness of the Weimar era, with its movie palaces, cultural Americanism, and surface cultu...
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| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration and Translation
- Introduction: The Cinematic Commonplace
- Chapter 1 The Weimar Picture Palace: From Film to Cinema in Berlin Exile (1925–1928)
- Chapter 2 The Man from the Movie Kingdom: Cinema Debates and Culture Theory (1925–1930)
- Chapter 3 A Cinematic Genius: Camera Obscura and the European Culture Industry (1931–1936)
- Chapter 4 America Obscura: Laughter in the Dark (1933–1940)
- Coda. The Old Europe Picture Palace
- Appendix: Georgy Gessen’s Film Reviews for Rul′ (1924–1931)
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index