Offering a consideration of not only the Lolita effect but shifting attitudes toward the mix of sex, children, and popular entertainment, this study explores the movies, theatrical shows, literary spin-offs, artifacts, fashion, art, photography, and tabloid excesses that have distorted Lolita's identity.
This study charts the history of design and advertising since the 1960s. Covering a range of design disciplines - including graphic design, press advertising, radio and television - narrative-style essays discuss themes, historical frameworks and developments in design practice since the 1960s.
Neal Cassady was a compulsive womanizer who lived life on the edge. His conversational writing style inspired Kerouac, who lifted a number of passages verbatim and uncredited from Cassady's letters for significant episodes in On the Road . This is a biography of Cassady that takes a look at the man who achieved immortality as Dean Moriarty.