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A Critical Companion to Sofia Coppola
A Critical Companion to Sofia Coppola
ISBN: 9781793636799
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The films of Sofia Coppola have moved and entranced audiences with her minimalist style, moody soundscapes, and commitment to center the lives and experiences of women and girls. A Critical Companion to Sofia Coppola explores the profound implications of her stories, images, and convictions in a comprehensive study of all eight of her major works. Drawing from a wide range of disciplines, each chapter offers a fresh, interdisciplinary reading of one of Coppola's films and her treatment of core themes like masculinity, sexual politics, bodies, and love. Rigorously researched and unique, the arguments presented within this volume shed new light on one of the most important women filmmakers in film history.
By Naaman K. Wood, Christopher Booth
Imprint: LEXINGTON BOOKS
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Format: HARDBACK
Pages: 316
PART I: MASCULINITY Chapter 1. An Alternative Masculinity: The Habuitus of Vulnerability, Presence, and Mundane Delight in Somewhere (2010) Chapter 2. Limits of Masculinity: Excess, Mimicry, and Ambivalence in The Virgin Suicides (1999) PART II: SEXUAL POLITICS Chapter 3. A Limited Liberation: Film Music, Suture, Feminism, and Anachronism in Marie Antoinette (2006) Chapter 4. Tables Turned: Hospitality, Phallogocentrism, and Virginity in The Beguiled (2017) PART III: BODIES Chapter 5. A Bodily Desire: (Micro)celebrity, Celebrity Culture as Parareligion, and the Erotic in The Bling Ring (2013) Chapter 6. An Embodied Joy: Carnivalesque Subversions and Grotesque Bodies in A Very Murray Christmas (2015) PART IV: LOVE Chapter 7. A Liminal Love: Charles Taylor's Malaise and Chela Sandoval's Decolonial Love in Lost in Translation (2003) Chapter 8. A Managed Love: Emotional Labor, Exhaustion, and Unhappiness in On the Rocks (2020)
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Naaman K. Wood is professor in the Communication Department at Saint Paul College. Christopher Booth is professor in the Music Department at Old Dominion University.