“I get sort of carried away, being so normal and everything”: the oscillating sexuality of Clare Quilty and Humbert Humbert in the works of Nabokov, Kubrick and Lyne

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dc.contributor.authorRichards, Emerson
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-10T10:17:37Z
dc.date.available2018-04-10T10:17:37Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractThis paper compares and analyses the differences between Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955) and filmic versions by Stanley Kubrick (1962) and Adrian Lyne (1994), focusing on the respective characterisations of Clare Quilty, as mediated through his encounter with Humbert Humbert at a pivotal scene at the Enchanted Hunter’s Lodge. Following an in-depth analysis of the scene in question, the article then examines Kubrick’s Lolita, exploring the homosocial undertones of Peter Sellers’s Quilty, and the attendant commentary on heteronormative culture of late 1950s/early 1960s America. Finally, Lyne’s interpretation of this encounter will be analysed to discern how a menacing Quilty alters the narrative and deviates from the previous representations, updating the social commentary to incorporate a distinctly 1990s milieu in the process. Treating the two films as iterations and/or mutations of the original literature, the article proposes a comparatist-driven analysis to discern each artist’s intentions toward the narrative as exemplified by this crucial meeting of minds.en
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dc.identifier.citationRichards, E. S. F. (2012) '“I get sort of carried away, being so normal and everything”: the oscillating sexuality of Clare Quilty and Humbert Humbert in the works of Nabokov, Kubrick and Lyne', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 4. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.4.03en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.4.03
dc.identifier.endpage49
dc.identifier.issn2009-4078
dc.identifier.issued4
dc.identifier.journalabbrevAlphaville
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage37
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/5755
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
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dc.rights© 2012, The Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectLolitaen
dc.subjectFilm adaptationen
dc.subjectSocially acceptable narrativeen
dc.subjectOriginal novelen
dc.subjectSexualityen
dc.title“I get sort of carried away, being so normal and everything”: the oscillating sexuality of Clare Quilty and Humbert Humbert in the works of Nabokov, Kubrick and Lyneen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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