Lolita Podcast

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10: Poems That Take 1000 Years to Die Feb 01, 2021

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On the finale of Lolita Podcast, we look at the legacy of Dolores Haze -- where she's been, and where she may be going.

Carnal Knowledge by Zoe Ligon & Elizabeth Renstrom: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646983/carnal-knowledge-by-zoe-ligon-elizabeth-renstrom/

Spectrum Boutique!: https://spectrumboutique.com/

Jess Murwin: https://jessmurwin.com/

Eva Vives's All About Nina: https://www.netflix.com/title/81019338

How Lolita Freed Me From My Own Humbert by Bindu Bansinath: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/style/modern-love-how-lolita-freed-me-from-my-own-humbert.html

The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-real-lolita-sarah-weinman?variant=32205640040482

Being Lolita by Alisson Wood: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250217219

Lo's Diary was Bad by Ms. Lola: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEPIg5ApzLo&t=1168s

Let's Talk About the Japanese schoolgirl by Mina Le: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBnlC9lrKVM

How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxOp5uP_XoU

Tampa by Alissa Nutting: https://www.amazon.com/Tampa-Novel-Alissa-Nutting/dp/0062280589

My Dark Vanessa by KE Russell: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/my-dark-vanessa-kate-elizabeth-russell?variant=32126599266338

Insights on Cuties: https://gal-dem.com/what-everyone-got-wrong-about-cuties-the-black-muslim-coming-of-age-netflix-film-accused-of-hypersexualisation/

https://bylinetimes.com/2020/09/28/cuties-netflix-review/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGITudIVBE8

Nabokov Interview in Playboy: http://reprints.longform.org/playboy-interview-vladimir-nabokov

Nabokov in The Paris Review, 1967: https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4310/the-art-of-fiction-no-40-vladimir-nabokov

On Discovering A Butterfly: https://acupofpoetry.tumblr.com/post/72726722487/on-discovering-a-butterfly-by-vladimir-nabokov

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9: The Four Lolitas Jan 25, 2021

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On the next to last episode of Lolita Podcast, Jamie takes a look at the lives and careers of the four women who played Dolores Haze in the four major adaptations to date.

Natalie Portman Women's March Speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXWHO14c88c&t=84s

Mara Wilson on Millie Bobby Brown: https://www.indiewire.com/2017/11/matilda-mara-wilson-millie-bobby-brown-stranger-things-1201897682/

An Open Secret documentary: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/nov/01/an-open-secret-hollywood-child-abuse-documentary

Q Anon's negative affect on reporting child abuse: https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/28/politics/qanon-child-welfare/index.html

Refinery29 on the Millie Bobby Brown blowback: https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2018/01/189107/media-sexualization-young-girls-millie-bobby-brown-backlash

Bridgette Bardot and the Lolita Complex: https://classic.esquire.com/article/1959/8/1/brigitte-bardot-and-the-lolita-syndrome

Sue Lyon's NYT obituary: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/27/movies/sue-lyon-dead.html

Sue Lyon 1980s interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOLtXhPYxoM

The Dark Side of Lolita by Sarah Weinman: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7843491/Cursed-Lolita.html

Nona Harrison Gomez's website: http://www.nonatruthseeker.com/truth-seeker

Yes, They Tried to Make a Broadway Musical of Lolita: https://www.vulture.com/2018/09/yes-they-tried-to-make-a-broadway-musical-out-of-lolita.html

You're a Dum Dum by Annette Ferra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ksh_DyW6Mw

The "Baby Doll" marquee: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/412572015835952732/

Protests around the Edward Albee Lolita: https://www.csmonitor.com/1981/0303/030320.html

Dominique Swain in Face/Off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XKYc7OirQk

Dominique Swain Interview 2001: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT6ibVvQ_VA&t=5s

Dominique Swain Interview 2002: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHFpYsd9VYk

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8: Dolores Logs In Jan 18, 2021

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This week, Jamie dives down the rabbit hole of Lolita blogs and fan communities, beginning in the early 2000s and through now, and a look at the non-sexual nymphet fashion movement that Nabokov's book inspired. It's... complicated.

Ms. Lola on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MsLola/videos

Lolita in the Afterlife: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/612244/lolita-in-the-afterlife-by-edited-by-jenny-minton-quigley/

Ways of Seeing, E1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pDE4VX_9Kk&t=3s

The Parasocial Phenomenon (Nova): https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/parasocial-relationships/

Grooming: https://www.nspcc.org.uk/what-is-child-abuse/types-of-abuse/grooming/

The Revisionist History of the Nymphet Community (corrected by someone who was actually there) by Nilijah Myeesa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mytlvx1TepY&t=67s

Why Black Girlhood is Not Valued in the Coquette/Nymphet Community: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWfHhL56g3g

Sarah Kathryn Cleaver on Lolita Tumblr: https://showstudio.com/projects/girly/essay_lolita

When Dolores Haze Gets a Tumblr: Online "Nymphet" Culture and the Reclaiming of Lolita by Mishka Hoosen: https://blog.pshares.org/when-dolores-haze-gets-a-tumblr-online-nymphet-culture-and-the-reclaiming-of-lolita/

Schyler Reign on Non-Sexual Nymphet Fashion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76k9UWO7_f4&t=307s

Watch This Before You Get Into Nymphet Fashion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9n7_xVZJUo

Criticism for Nymphet Fashion & The Community: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1OlMdiqCfw&t=8s

Are You a Nymphet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1j0XFKXlkk&t=1002s

The self-- harmed, visualized and reblogged: Self-iinjury ono Tumblr: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1461444816660783?journalCode=nmsa

Rachel Davis's Lolita Tumblr thesis: https://scholar.utc.edu/honors-theses/94/

Nerdymixedpan on TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJGPHvV5/

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7 (Part 2): Lolita In the 90s Jan 13, 2021

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In Part 2 of our episode on the Lolita 1997 movie adaptation, we dig into America in the 90s -- a wave of movies full of teen girls as sexual demon, how The Long Island Lolita redefined Dolores to a new generation, and dive into the complex production and release of Adrian Lyne's Lolita.

The Crush (1993): https://variety.com/1993/film/reviews/the-crush-2-1200432089/

Jon Stewart interviews Alicia Silverstone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5Ic3nRa1J8

Long Island Lolita News Coverage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5Ic3nRa1J8

Jeremy Irons Weird Apology Conference: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/02/jeremy-irons-berlinale-press-conference

The Child Pornography Protection Act of 1996: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-105shrg44512/html/CHRG-105shrg44512.htm

History of Child Pornography laws in the US: http://www.stobbslaw.com/blog/2014/05/a-brief-overview-of-child-pornography-laws-and-key-problems/#:~:text=In%201990%20Congress%20passed%20the,mere%E2%80%9D%20possession%20of%20child%20pornography.

Lolita comes up in Supreme Court: https://greensboro.com/the-truth-about-lolita/article_25b3325b-b54b-555b-b794-b5f16a8dbced.html

1999 MTV Movie Awards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VaPXMC6jYc

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7 (Part 1): That Time David Mamet Wrote a Draft of Lolita (And Other Hollywood Tragedies) Jan 11, 2021

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It's high time we talk about the 1997 movie adaptation of Lolita by Adrian Lyne. Between Stanley Kubrick's adaptation in 1962 and Dominique Swain playing Lolita in the '90s. In part one of this two-parter, we take a look at knock-off Lolita productions, how the conversation around child sex abuse changes in Hollywood and America in the 80s and 90s, and how Stranger Danger misses the mark going into the '90s.

Notes:

Adrian Lyne talking Lolita in '98: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACi2JdJBM44&t=1s

Lolita Comes Again (Esquire '98): https://classic.esquire.com/article/1997/2/1/lolita-comes-again

Natalie Portman talks Lolita: https://www.themarysue.com/natalie-portman-talks-about-lolita-label/

That Roman Polanski Petition: https://www.indiewire.com/2009/09/over-100-in-film-community-sign-polanski-petition-55821/

Lolita Behind the Scenes Featurette '97: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYJFRnaYyMQ&t=2s

Lolita Screen Test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4hAOuXWxyc

Twinky (1970): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG9-C3EW6zo

Jodie Foster and Taxi Driver: https://www.wmagazine.com/story/forty-years-after-taxi-driver-and-her-first-oscar-nomination-jodie-foster-recalls-the-making-of-a-classic/

Polly Platt: The Invisible Woman (YMRT): http://www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/2020/7/pollyplattarchive28

Brooke Shields reflects on Pretty Baby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTSSBJ6xyi4

Samantha Geimer on 60 Minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5dIdoaDgN8&feature=youtu.be

Milk Carton Kids: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/02/when-bad-news-was-printed-on-milk-cartons/516675/

Stranger Danger & Mass Incarceration: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/05/stranger-danger-mass-incarceration-paul-renfro

RAINN Statistics: https://www.rainn.org/statistics/children-and-teens

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6: Lolita the Cover Girl, Lolita the Pop Star Jan 04, 2021

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How long have we been judging Lolita by its cover? To be fair, they're not much help. This week, Jamie guides you through a crash course on Lolita/nymphet aesthetics -- when we say 'Lolita,' what are we really talking about? We take a look at the visual legacy of Lolita's book covers, persistence in advertising and how misreads of the text have been haunting pop music for generations.

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Playlist of Music Discussed in today's episode: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5wRWB0GKjMapop7HLeWA4Z?si=ax1y7kR4TMyuy7WR-D17HQ

Ms. Lola's "we need to talk about Lolita": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPANXxV1iFo&t=2975s

Dakota Fanning in the 'Oh Lola!'

https://www.businessinsider.com/dakota-fanning-marc-jacobs-lolita-daily-mail-2011-6

Lolita Lempicka with Elle Fanning, 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNmE9bCz-Cw

Love's Baby Soft: https://piimages.parfumo.de/9/6/10980_594cdc64d8d8c6e819dc7043c8dab1f6_love_s_baby_soft.jpg

Bradley Cooper and Suki Waterhouse Daily Mail story: www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2403281/Bradley-Cooper-38-reads-Lolita-Suki-Waterhouse-21-sprawls-Parisian-park.html

Lolicon: https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/25434

Nerdymixedpan TikTok about Lolita, Lolicon and Lolita fashion: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJGPHvV5/

Lolita: Story of a Cover Girl: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Lolita-The-Story-of-a-Cover-Girl/John-Bertram/9781440329883

Moi, Lolita music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpbHdIrtpNo

"Men Explain Fiona Apple to Me": https://www.nylon.com/fiona-apple

Rolling Stone: Britney Spears 1999 profile: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/britney-spears-teen-queen-rolling-stones-1999-cover-story-254871/

Rolling Stone Reflecting on this profile, 2011: https://oneweekoneband.tumblr.com/post/70792509009/spears-and-lachapelle-both-say-they-knew-the-photo

Dave LaChapelle's celebrity photography: https://www.artsy.net/artwork/david-lachapelle-paris-hilton-grandma-hiltons-house

"Surviving R. Kelly" Full Series: https://www.netflix.com/title/81069393

"Why Has R. Kelly Been in Jail for the Past Year?" 8/2020: https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/legal-and-management/9430230/r-kelly-why-in-jail-for-year#:~:text=The%20singer%20was%20re%2Darrested,that%20included%20kidnapping%2C%20forced%20labor%2C

R. Kelly: The History of Allegations Against Him 8/2020: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40635526

Surviving R. Kelly': Threats and New Abuse Details: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/02/arts/television/surviving-r-kelly-2.html

R. Kelly Girlfriend Joycelyn Savage Speaks Out, Saying She is a 'Victim': https://variety.com/2019/music/news/r-kelly-joycelyn-savage-speaks-out-victim-1203414308/

The True Story of R. Kelly and Aaliyah's Relationship: https://www.biography.com/news/aaliyah-r-kelly-relationship-true-story

R. Kelly Paid Bribe So That He Could marry 15-Year-Old Aaliyah, Government Alleges: https://www.npr.org/2019/12/05/785356513/r-kelly-bribed-official-to-marry-15-year-old-aaliyah-government-alleges

Why Lana Del Rey Is Under Fire for Her Most Recent Comments About Women in Music: https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-books-music/a32627332/lana-del-rey-number-one-controversy/

Lana Del Rey's White Fragility Contextualized Within the United States' Anti-Blackness: https://thecovenmag.com/lol/lana

Lana, don't use Black women to make your point.: https://medium.com/@jiananicole/lana-dont-use-black-women-to-prove-your-point-1590db61f52a

Lana Del Rey Has Lana Del LOST IT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEDAjw9Ljrw

Lana Del Rey / Die Zeit Interview: https://unlovedmarmot.tumblr.com/post/104174687405/lana-del-rey-i-dont-play-the-role-of-a-lolita/amp

Lana Del Rey The Fader Interview 2014: https://www.thefader.com/2014/06/04/cover-story-lana-del-rey-is-anyone-she-wants-to-behttps://www.thefader.com/2014/06/04/cover-story-lana-del-rey-is-anyone-she-wants-to-be

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5: Dolores Onstage Dec 21, 2020

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Trigger warning: this episode contains discussion of child sex abuse and pedophilia.

"Who is that viper that likes them post-diaper?" This is just one of the objectively terrifying lyrics in a botched Broadway musical of Lolita -- the first an expensive, campy musical from the writer of My Fair Lady in the 70s, and another gritty reboot from Edward Albee starring Edward Albee in the 80s. We speak to the actors who played Lolita about the public pressures put on by the productions and the public, look at the many stage failures from the inside and out, and listen to lighthearted Broadway tunes about the worst crime a human can commit.

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Discussed in today's episode:

"Lolita My Love" -- a recording from 1971 in Boston: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7GUnjiGtMo

Sarah Weinman's "Yes, They Once Tried to Make a Musical Out of Lolita", 2018: https://www.sarahweinman.com/writing/yes-they-once-tried-to-make-a-broadway-musical-out-of-lolita/

"You're a Dum Dum": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ksh_DyW6Mw

Blood Pageant from Chris Gilmore: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7184122/

"Thank Heaven For Little Girls": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTM40o3WgZo

Edward Albee's Lolita (1981): https://www.themorgan.org/literary-historical/87221

NYT Review of Albee's Lolita: https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/20/theater/stage-albee-s-adaptation-of-lolita-opens.html

"Who's Afraid of White Fragility?" Hyperallergic, 2017: https://hyperallergic.com/381406/whos-afraid-of-white-fragility-edward-albee/

"Albee Estate Clarifies Position of Casting Controversy of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Playbill, 2017: https://www.playbill.com/article/albee-estate-clarifies-position-on-casting-controversy-surrounding-whos-afraid-of-virginia-woolf

The Edward Albee Foundation: http://www.albeefoundation.org/

"Jewishness as Literary Device in Nabokov's Fiction": https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/vladimir-nabokov-in-context/jewishness-as-literary-device-in-nabokovs-fiction/3782DCBACEA7BADFAE31A54F018565BE

"Wrestling with a Lolita Opera and Losing" NYT, 2005: https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/24/arts/music/wrestling-with-a-lolita-opera-and-losing.html

Rodion Schedrin on his 'Lolita' opera: https://web.archive.org/web/20120329063800/http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=100&story_id=27516

Michael Walsh on Schedrin's Lolita opera: http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,982502,00.html

Cathy Marston 2015 Lolita ballet trailer (Denmark): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7z5xRqma5k

Hiroko Mikami on Michael West's 2003 'Lolita' adaptation: https://m.blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?blogId=bluefox2000&logNo=221158934098&categoryNo=112&proxyReferer=&proxyReferer=https:%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

Victor Sobchak's Lolita, 2003: http://www.theatrecollection.net/lolita.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20gWy7ALbcI

Davide Bombana's Lolita ballet excerpt, 2003: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvNgIOIfF3Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FawPxiWoZuI

Brian Cox as Humbert in Richard Nelson's 2009 one-man "Lolita": https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/theatre/lolita-the-perfect-approach-to-humbert-grotesquerie-7416446.html

Humbert Humbert (Conjuring Nymphet), NYT 2009 (Michael Galante adaptation): https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/arts/music/08loli.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuJ8SkhlGDM

John Harbison's "Darkbloom": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBIUEo_N5wI

Lolita: An Imagined Opera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuJ8SkhlGDM

Russian Ballet Excerpt "The Swimmer" from 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTwPr5FpF8Q

'Lolita' by The Four Humors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWd3zuCZFEU

"An Infamous 'Lolita' Musical Gets a Belated Broadway Debut" NYT 2019 (Emilly Maltby Production): https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/18/theater/lolita-my-love-york-theater-company-alan-jay-lerner.html

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4: Dolores, Psychology, and Survivors Dec 14, 2020

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Content warning: this episode contains discussion of child sex abuse and pedophilia.

What can survivors of abuse take away from the experiences of Nabokov's Dolores Haze? It depends on who you talk to. This week, Jamie examines the popular psychologies of Freud and Kinsey that Dolly would have been surrounded by, and with two prominent psychologists -- Lucia Williams and Michael Lamb -- about the value Dolores's story has to students of psychology today. We also speak with Sarah Weinman about "The Real Lolita," survivors Alisson Wood ("Being Lolita") and Bindu Bansinath ("How Lolita Freed Me From My Own Humbert") about the role of Lolita in their own processing and healing from childhood trauma. This is a tough one. Thanks for being here.

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If you are seeking resources about MAPs: https://www.b4uact.org/

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DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

"Casting Aspersions" by Tashmica Torok: https://www.lovewithaccountability.com/lovewithaccountability-forum/2016/10/21/casting-aspersions-by-tashmica-torok

'How Lolita Freed Me From My Own Humbert' by Bindu Bansinath: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/style/modern-love-how-lolita-freed-me-from-my-own-humbert.html

Being Lolita by Alisson Wood: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250217219

The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-real-lolita-sarah-weinman

Still Intrigued with Lolita: Nabokov's Visionary Work on Childhood Abuse by Lucia Williams: https://thenabokovian.org/sites/default/files/2018-06/NABOKV-L-0027757___Williams_2016_StillIntriguedWithLol_Lolita.pdf

The Mann Act and Boxer Jack Johnson: https://www.history.com/news/white-slave-mann-act-jack-johnson-pardon

Infantile bisexuality and the 'complete oedipal complex': Freudian views on heterosexuality and homosexuality: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22014366/

Freud and LGBTQIA+ Issues: A 2020 Analysis: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psychoanalysis-unplugged/202005/was-freud-gay-friendly

Anna Freud: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anna-Freud

Freud and the Seduction Theory by Jeffrey Masson: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1984/02/freud-and-the-seduction-theory/376313/

The Enduring, Pernicious Whiteness of True Crime by Elon Green: https://theappeal.org/whiteness-of-true-crime/

Alfred Kinsey: Liberator or Pervert? by Caleb Crain: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/03/movies/alfred-kinsey-liberator-or-pervert.html

Karen Horney and womb envy: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karen-Horney#ref669884

Race and Racism in Psychoanalytic Thought: The Ghosts in Our Nursery by Beverly Stoute: https://apsa.org/apsaa-publications/vol51no1-TOC/html/vol51no1_08.xhtml

Conversations on Psychoanalysis and Race: Beverly J. Stoute: https://apsa.org/apsaa-publications/vol50no3-TOC/html/vol50no3_03.xhtml

Sokhna Fall on Nabokov's Lolita: http://stopauxviolences.blogspot.com/2010/11/article-de-sokhna-fall-sur-lolita-de.html

Lolita in the Afterlife (essay collection coming in 2021): https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lolita-in-the-afterlife-jenny-minton-quigley/1137210905

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi: https://azarnafisi.com/book/reading-lolita-in-tehran/

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3: How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Lolita? (1962) Dec 07, 2020

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Well, they didn't. This week, Jamie dives into the backstory to Stanley Kubrick's 1962 adaptation of Lolita, interviews one of the world's foremost Kubrick scholars, examines Vladimir Nabokov's involvement and how the first Lolita, Sue Lyon, was treated on set and in media.

[Trigger warning: this podcast contains discussion of child sex abuse, pedophillia and the plot of the story Lolita.]

Nabokov's script for Lolita: https://www.openculture.com/2014/06/vladimir-nabokovs-script-for-stanley-kubricks-lolita.html

James B. Harris allegations: https://airmail.news/issues/2020-10-24/the-dark-side-of-lolita

James Fenwick's Stanley Kubrick Produces: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/stanley-kubrick-produces/9781978814875

Haley Mills and Lolita: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hayley-mills_b_881441

Chasing Lolita by Graham Vickers: https://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/chasing-lolita-products-9781556526824.php

Lucia Wiliams: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lucia_Williams

Lindsay Ellis's "The Whole Plate: Framing Megan Fox": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKyrUMUervU

Kubrick on Lolita as a love story: http://www.archiviokubrick.it/english/words/interviews/1962southern.html

More Information on the Hays Code: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93301189#:

Sue Lyon in 1962: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bHz-N6bJ3I

Sue Lyon in the 1980s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOLtXhPYxoM

Charlie Chaplin's history of CSA and abuse: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/06/07/chap-j07.html

Errol Flynn and child sex abuse: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2013/09/errol-flynn-toronto-film-festival

The poster for Baby Doll, 1956: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51I-84I48DL._AC_.jpg

Carroll Baker interview from 2019: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristenlopez/2019/12/09/carroll-baker-on-not-being-hollywoods-baby-doll-63-years-later/?sh=2ead498f27d8

Shelley Duvall and Stanley Kubrick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qRuo1lbEIU

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2: Volodya Takes America Nov 30, 2020

Show notes

Vladimir Nabokov is your favorite author? Name five of his short stories written in Berlin in the 1930s. This week we look into how the author of Lolita's attempts at writing around the book's themes pre-dated his masterwork by several decades, the endless saga of getting Lolita published, some of the story’s earliest critical misinterpretations and the life of one of the 20th century’s best-regarded authors. Jamie speaks with Nabokovian Dana Dragunoiu and Nabokov's all-time biographer Brian Boyd.

Featuring the voices of Aziz Vora as Humbert Humbert, Robert Evans as Vladimir Nabokov, additional voice work from Anna Hossnieh, Shereen Lani-Younes, Grace Thomas, Isaac Taylor, and Miles Gray. Produced by Sophie Lichterman, Miles Gray, Beth-Anne Macaluso and Jack O'Brien. Editing by Isaac Taylor, additional editing by Ben Loftus. Written and hosted by Jamie Loftus.

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In this episode we talked about:

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Nabokov in Russia by Brian Boyd

Nabokov in America by Brian Boyd

The Magician's Doubts by Michael Wood

Nabokov’s Women: The Silent Sisterhood of textual Nomads, edited by Elena Rakhimova-Sommers

Maurice Girodias (we didn't have time to cover him in depth here but the man is a piece of WORK): https://evergreenreview.com/read/lolita-and-mr-girodias/

Early reviews of Lolita: https://bookmarks.reviews/sick-scandalous-spectaular-the-first-reviews-of-lolita/

The Showgirl Who Discovered Lolita by Sarah Weinman: https://lithub.com/the-showgirl-who-discovered-lolita/

Vladimir Nabokov and the Poetics of Liberalism by Dana Dragunoiu: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/content/vladimir-nabokov-and-poetics-liberalism

The Enchanter by Vladimir Sirin (Nabokov)

Still Intrigued with Lolita: Nabokov's Visionary Work on Child Sexual Abuse by Lucia Williams: https://thenabokovian.org/sites/default/files/2018-06/NABOKV-L-0027757___Williams_2016_StillIntriguedWithLol_Lolita.pdf

Nabokov's Playboy Interview from 1964: http://reprints.longform.org/playboy-interview-vladimir-nabokov

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