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Lolita Podcast

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  • Who is Lolita? The Nabokov literary classic has sparked infinite discussion in the 65 years since its release, but the cultural memory the book has left behind lives more in romance and fashion aesthetics than a cautionary tale about a deceptive predator and his young prey. Jamie Loftus wants to know how we got here, and this series traces Lolita -- the person, Dolores Haze -- from her literary origin to current status as a doomed icon.
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  • 10: Poems That Take 1000 Years to Die
    Feb 1 2021

    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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    1 hr and 58 mins
  • 9: The Four Lolitas
    Jan 25 2021

    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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    1 hr and 23 mins
  • 8: Dolores Logs In
    Jan 18 2021

    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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    1 hr and 14 mins

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Very thoughtful exploration of the phenomenon

There was so much meat to chew there really should be another season of this podcast. The exploration was thoughtful and interesting.

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A necessary and powerful story for CSA survivors and the uninitiated alike

As a CSA survivor this story was a piercing, thoughtful, brash breath of fresh air that - despite its narrow focus - explores and explains so much of the cultural mindset I’ve grown up around in my life. If I could give it 1,000 stars I would. Jamie Loftus is a champion.

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great Material let down by delivery, production

Super interesting topic; too much music and poor, intellectually incurious, unfunny narration.

Lines like "(Freud is wrong because)... he based his analysis of psychology on mythology, which is of course fake" are the kind of pop culture pseudo intellectualism that abounds.

I did listen to it all, but I couldn't recommend it.

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