TY - JOUR

T1 - Kubrick’s Double: Lolita’s Hidden Heart of Jewishness

AU - Abrams, Nathan

N1 - This is a pre-copyedited version of an article accepted for publication in Cinema Journal following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available through the University of Texas Press."

PY - 2016/4/1

Y1 - 2016/4/1

N2 - Drawing on material gleaned from the Kubrick Archives in London, this articleargues that Stanley Kubrick’s 1962 adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s 1955 novel Lolita allows us the possibility, albeit not the certainty, of reading Jewishness into his film. Although, on the surface, Kubrick’s Lolita seemingly distances itself from active concern with questions or representations of Jewishness, its traces are not entirely scrubbed away. The focus of this article is the character Clare Quilty, particularly in terms of Kubrick’s choice of casting for the role, and Peter Sellers’s performance of it.

AB - Drawing on material gleaned from the Kubrick Archives in London, this articleargues that Stanley Kubrick’s 1962 adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s 1955 novel Lolita allows us the possibility, albeit not the certainty, of reading Jewishness into his film. Although, on the surface, Kubrick’s Lolita seemingly distances itself from active concern with questions or representations of Jewishness, its traces are not entirely scrubbed away. The focus of this article is the character Clare Quilty, particularly in terms of Kubrick’s choice of casting for the role, and Peter Sellers’s performance of it.

KW - Kubrick

KW - Jewishness

KW - Film

KW - Cinema

U2 - 10.1353/cj.2016.0021

DO - 10.1353/cj.2016.0021

M3 - Article

VL - 55

SP - 17

JO - Cinema Journal

JF - Cinema Journal

SN - 0009-7101

IS - 3

ER -