# Valley of the Dolls **Domain:** Literature / Popular Culture / Mediated Selfhood **Doc Type:** Book Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[Jacqueline Susann]], [[Camouflage Ontology]], [[Nostalgia as Governance]] --- ## Definition _Valley of the Dolls_ is Jacqueline Susann's 1966 novel about women navigating entertainment, celebrity and dependence on prescription drugs. ## Corpus Context Its appearance in [[Black Mirror S6E3 — Beyond the Sea]] links the replica premise to a less spectacular form of substrate mediation: identity and survival managed through cultural and chemical infrastructures. ## Key Insight **This node connects its historical or conceptual subject to the corpus without treating analogy as proof of direct influence.** ## See Also [[Jacqueline Susann]], [[Camouflage Ontology]], [[Nostalgia as Governance]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]