Nabokov, Kubrick and Stern: Who Created Lolita?

In this paper, I analyse the methods used by Stanley Kubrick, the famous film director and Bert Stern, an American photographer, in creating the first “visible” Lolita, relying on Nabokovʼs 1955 controversial book. The novel tells a provocative story about middle-aged university professor who moves...

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Autor principal:	Dijana Metlić
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Lenguaje:	EN FR SR
Publicado:	University of Belgrade 2019
Materias:	Lolita Vladimir Nabokov Stanley Kubrick Bert Stern Sue Lyon film adaptation Anthropology GN1-890
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:1f2ff950e12a4f88a49cfe30ca1a960c2021-12-02T03:16:18ZNabokov, Kubrick and Stern: Who Created Lolita?10.21301/eap.v14i2.20353-15892334-8801https://doaj.org/article/1f2ff950e12a4f88a49cfe30ca1a960c2019-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://eap-iea.org/index.php/eap/article/view/963https://doaj.org/toc/0353-1589https://doaj.org/toc/2334-8801 In this paper, I analyse the methods used by Stanley Kubrick, the famous film director and Bert Stern, an American photographer, in creating the first “visible” Lolita, relying on Nabokovʼs 1955 controversial book. The novel tells a provocative story about middle-aged university professor who moves from Europe to America in 1947, where he obsessively falls in love with the twelve-year-old Dolores Haze, with whom, by chance, he begins to travel together through USA, in order to extend the duration of their unacceptable sexual relationship. Adapting the novel in the restrictive conditions of film censorship in the early 1960s, Kubrick considerably changed the original Nabokovʼs story making it less provocative and sexually explicit. In this paper I consider Bert Sternʼs advertising campaign for Lolita as an extension of Kubrickʼs film because, his photography cycle shot in a Sag Harbour hotel, near New York, completes and continues Kubrickʼs project, showing Lolitaʼs diverse faces. Stern, rather than Kubrick, holds a prominent position in defining the so-called Lolita look that has left far-reaching consequences on popular culture in the following decades. In this paper I explore the links between Lolita and her creators, their individual contributions to the reception of Lolita in public, and I determine the role Sue Lyon, a young actress, had in this process considering the fact that she was the first flesh and blood Lolita. Dijana MetlićUniversity of BelgradearticleLolitaVladimir NabokovStanley KubrickBert SternSue Lyonfilm adaptationAnthropologyGN1-890ENFRSREtnoantropološki Problemi, Vol 14, Iss 2 (2019)
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description	In this paper, I analyse the methods used by Stanley Kubrick, the famous film director and Bert Stern, an American photographer, in creating the first “visible” Lolita, relying on Nabokovʼs 1955 controversial book. The novel tells a provocative story about middle-aged university professor who moves from Europe to America in 1947, where he obsessively falls in love with the twelve-year-old Dolores Haze, with whom, by chance, he begins to travel together through USA, in order to extend the duration of their unacceptable sexual relationship. Adapting the novel in the restrictive conditions of film censorship in the early 1960s, Kubrick considerably changed the original Nabokovʼs story making it less provocative and sexually explicit. In this paper I consider Bert Sternʼs advertising campaign for Lolita as an extension of Kubrickʼs film because, his photography cycle shot in a Sag Harbour hotel, near New York, completes and continues Kubrickʼs project, showing Lolitaʼs diverse faces. Stern, rather than Kubrick, holds a prominent position in defining the so-called Lolita look that has left far-reaching consequences on popular culture in the following decades. In this paper I explore the links between Lolita and her creators, their individual contributions to the reception of Lolita in public, and I determine the role Sue Lyon, a young actress, had in this process considering the fact that she was the first flesh and blood Lolita.
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Nabokov, Kubrick and Stern: Who Created Lolita?

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