Chasing Lolita : How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov's Little Girl All Over Again.
Title:
Chasing Lolita : How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov's Little Girl All Over Again.
Author:
Vickers, Graham.
ISBN:
9781556529634
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (260 pages)
Contents:
Front Cover -- Front Flap -- Front Matter -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Real Life of Dolores Haze: Just the Facts -- Chapter 2: Casebooks and Fantasies: Dolores Haze's Oft-Told Tale -- Chapter 3: A Very 1950s Scandal: Hurricane Lolita -- Chapter 4: Lolita in Movieland 1: Little Victims and Little Princesses -- Chapter 5: Lolita in Movieland 2: "Pedophilia Is a Hard Sell" -- Chapter 6: On the Road: Lolita's Moving Prison -- Chapter 7: Take One: How Did They Ever Make a Film of Lolita? -- Chapter 8: Dramatic Arts: Lolita Center Stage -- Chapter 9: The Spirit of Free Enterprise: Every Foul Poster -- Chapter 10: Tabloids and Factoids: The Press and Lolita -- Chapter 11: Take Two: Once More, with Feeling -- Chapter 12: Blood Sisters: Some Responses to Lolita -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Flap -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
In the summer of 1958, a 12-year-old girl took the world by stormLolita was published in the United Statesand 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 obsessionunhappy 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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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