Sofia Coppola : a cinema of girlhood /

Sofia Coppola : a cinema of girlhood /

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Author / Creator:	Handyside, Fiona, 1974- author.
Imprint:	London : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2017. ©2017
Description:	ix, 201 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	International Library of the Moving Image ; 39 International library of the moving image ; 39.
Subject:	Coppola, Sofia, -- 1971- -- Criticism and interpretation. Coppola, Sofia, -- 1971- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10985844

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ISBN:	9781784537142 1784537144 9781784537159 1784537152 9781786721600 9781786731609
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-196), filmography (pages 197-198) and index.
Summary:	She has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award and two Golden Globes, and in 2004 became the first ever American woman to be nominated for a Best Director Oscar. From The Virgin Suicides to The Bling Ring, her work carves out new spaces for the expression of female subjectivity that embraces rather than rejects femininity. Fiona Handyside here considers the careful counter-balance of vulnerability with the possibilities and pleasures of being female in Coppola's films - albeit for the white and the privileged - through their recurrent themes of girlhood, fame, power, sex and celebrity. Chapters reveal a post-feminist aesthetic that offers sustained, intimate engagements with female characters. These characters inhabit luminous worlds of girlish adornments, light and sparkle and yet find homes in unexpected places from hotels to swimming pools, palaces to strip clubs: resisting stereotypes and the ordinary. In this original study, Handyside brings critical attention to a rare female auteur and in so doing contributes to important analyses of post-feminism, authorship in film, and the growing field of girlhood studies.

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Call Number:	PN1998.3.C672 H36 2017
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