Article: The Cinematic Art of Nympholepsy: Movie Star Culture as Loser Culture in Nabokov's Lolita.(Vladimir Nabokov)(Critical Essay)

THE MOST RECENT film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita faced serious opposition before finally being released in the United States.(1) Director Adrian Lyne was initially unable to get an American film company to distribute his film. According to Lyne, the film risked being construed under the 1996 Child Pornography Prevention Act as child pornography even though an adult body double of the fourteen-year-old actress playing Lolita was used for the nude scenes (which ended up on the cutting room floor, in any case).

Lyne's travails getting his film to its intended audience might be regarded as merely another instance of the censorial interference that began ...

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