Shadow of a Double: Taking a Closer Look at the Opening of Kubrick's Lolita

Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone

关键词: mise en abyme;    scopophilia;    double/doppelgänger;    cristallisation;    representation;   

DOI  :  10.4000/miranda.1521

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

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.

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