Chasing Lolita: How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov's Little Girl All Over AgainChicago Review Press, 2008 - 256 páginas In the summer of 1958, a 12-year-old girl took the world by storm--"Lolita" was published in the United States--and since then, her name has been taken in vain to serve a wide range of dubious ventures, both artistic and commercial. Offering a full consideration of not only "the Lolita effect" but shifting attitudes toward the mix of sex, children, and popular entertainment from Victorian times to the present, this study explores the movies, theatrical shows, literary spin-offs, artifacts, fashion, art, photography, and tabloid excesses that have distorted Lolita's identity with an eye toward some real-life cases of young girls who became the innocent victims of someone else's obsession--unhappy sisters to one of the most affecting heroines in fiction. New insight is provided into the brief life of Lolita and into her longer afterlives as well. |
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A Very 1950s Scandal Hurricane Lolita | 41 |
Lolita in Movieland 1 Little Victims and Little Princesses | 55 |
Lolita in Movieland 2 Pedophilia Is a Hard Sell | 71 |
On the Road Lolitas Moving Prison | 93 |
Take One How Did They Ever Make a Film of Lolita? | 109 |
Tabloids and Factoids The Press and Lolita | 165 |
Take Two Once More with Feeling | 185 |
Blood Sisters Some Responses to Lolita | 205 |
Conclusion | 225 |
Bibliography | 233 |
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Back Flap | 249 |
Back Cover | 250 |
Dramatic Arts Lolita Center Stage | 131 |
The Spirit of Free Enterprise Every Foul Poster | 145 |
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Chasing Lolita: How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov's Little Girl All Over ... Graham Vickers Vista previa restringida - 2008 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 21 - ... regions which happened to be lucidly and absolutely forbidden to me, in my polluted rags and miserable convulsions." Continuing this meditation on possibilities which had not previously occurred to him, Humbert remembers an occasion on which Lolita may have realized that another of her girlfriends had "such a wonderful fat pink dad and a small chubby brother, and a brand-new baby sister, and a home, and two grinning dogs, and Lolita had nothing