Celebrity, Pedophilia, and Ideology in American Culture
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

xi

Chapter 1: Introduction

1

1.1. Ideology, Myth, and the Media

7

1.2. Facts and Theories

12

1.3. Popular Culture and Total Recall

17

1.4. Nature, the Savage, and Evil

26

1.5. Catholicism, Modernity, and Beyond

38

Chapter 2: Celebrity and Pedophilia

49

2.1. Celebrity Culture

49

2.2. Narcissism and Pedophilia

56

2.3. Michael Jackson

60

2.4. Behind the Mirror

64

2.5. The 2005 Trial

74

2.6. Michael Jackson, Difference, and Magic

79

2.7. Other Celebrity Cases

89

2.8. The Oprahfication of America

92

Chapter 3: Angels, Whores, and Sweethearts: Three Faces of Lolita

101

3.1. Nabokov’s Lolita

103

3.2. Kubrick’s Take

107

3.3. Adrian Lynne’s Lolita

116

Chapter 4: Adults Acting Out: Chinatown and Abuse

125