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From: joseph piercy <j9250308@wlv.ac.uk>
This is not really a full citation and probably something that you are
aware of anyhow but just in case : Some years ago (1992 ?) Channel Four in
Britain (a sort of pseudo arts/ popular culture channel) ran a programme
by their "Without Walls" team (a sort of very high-brow - low production
value - pseudo arts programme) under the title "Lolita Syndrome" which
(vaguely) analysed the use of young girls- the so- called "Lolita-Look"-
in advertising and popular culture. The programme largely consisted of
Camilla Paglia talking very quickly and quite incomprehensibly over
footage of waif-like super-models on cat-walks- however, the last five
minutes contained, what appeared to be cine-film footage of Nabokov in
shorts, hopping around on a hill with a Butterfly net in his hand.
Unfortunately, my copy of this rather spurious programme has long been
deleted by a philistine flat-mate and so I am unable to provide full
citation credits- perhaps someone else on the list may be able to help
with this - the Nabokov footage is probably the most enduring image of the
programme although maybe scholars interested in feminist critiques of
Lolita or in the novel's influence on cultural history may find what
Paglia has to say of some use.
Joseph Piercy
University of Wolverhampton
United Kingdom
This is not really a full citation and probably something that you are
aware of anyhow but just in case : Some years ago (1992 ?) Channel Four in
Britain (a sort of pseudo arts/ popular culture channel) ran a programme
by their "Without Walls" team (a sort of very high-brow - low production
value - pseudo arts programme) under the title "Lolita Syndrome" which
(vaguely) analysed the use of young girls- the so- called "Lolita-Look"-
in advertising and popular culture. The programme largely consisted of
Camilla Paglia talking very quickly and quite incomprehensibly over
footage of waif-like super-models on cat-walks- however, the last five
minutes contained, what appeared to be cine-film footage of Nabokov in
shorts, hopping around on a hill with a Butterfly net in his hand.
Unfortunately, my copy of this rather spurious programme has long been
deleted by a philistine flat-mate and so I am unable to provide full
citation credits- perhaps someone else on the list may be able to help
with this - the Nabokov footage is probably the most enduring image of the
programme although maybe scholars interested in feminist critiques of
Lolita or in the novel's influence on cultural history may find what
Paglia has to say of some use.
Joseph Piercy
University of Wolverhampton
United Kingdom