This Chuck Klosterman review of a new documentary about Kubrick’s The Shining should resonate with Nabokovians.

 

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8508523/documentary-year

 

Some of the essays on Pale Fire in the latest Nabokov Online Journal—particularly the one on genealogy—approach this kind of “Immersion Criticism,” and might therefore be easily dismissed.  But I think Klosterman says some helpful things about how we might enjoy this kind of thing and how such criticism may be seen as a compliment to the author/filmmaker, rather than an abuse.

 

Matt Roth