{"product_id":"sofia-coppola-the-politics-of-visual-pleasure-9781785339653","title":"Sofia Coppola: The Politics of Visual Pleasure","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eA feminist study of the mood, texture, tone, and multifaceted meaning of director Sofia Coppola’s aesthetic through her most influential and well-known films.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tA \u003cem\u003eChoice\u003c\/em\u003e Outstanding Academic Title 2019\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“With this book Rogers has produced a sophisticated and impassioned analysis of Coppola’s work… Rogers’s main argument – that Coppola manipulates pleasurable images to unsettle rather than mollify us – is utterly convincing. If nothing else, this certainly hits home in relation to my own enchantment with Coppola’s work.”—\u003cem\u003eBright Lights Film Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tAll too often, the movies of Sofia Coppola have been dismissed as “all style, no substance.” But such an easy caricature, as this engaging and accessible survey of Coppola’s oeuvre demonstrates, fundamentally misconstrues what are rich, ambiguous, meaningful films.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tDrawing on insights from feminist philosophy and psychology, the author here takes an original approach to Coppola, exploring vital themes from the subversion of patriarchy in \u003cem\u003eThe Virgin Suicides\u003c\/em\u003e to the “female gothic” in \u003cem\u003eThe Beguiled\u003c\/em\u003e. As Rogers shows, far from endorsing a facile and depoliticized postfeminism, Coppola’s films instead deploy beguilement, mood, and pleasure in the service of a robustly feminist philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eFrom the Introduction:\u003cbr\u003e \tSofia Coppola possesses a highly sophisticated and intricate knowledge of how images come to work on us; that is, she understands precisely how to construct an image – what to add in and what to remove – in order to achieve specific moods, tones and cinematic affects. She knows that similar kinds of images can have vastly different effects on the viewer depending on their context…. This monograph is an extended study of Coppola’s outstanding ability to think through and in images. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“Rogers's book led this reviewer to rewatch some of Coppola's films and decide that at least \u003c\/em\u003eLost in Translation \u003cem\u003e(2003) and\u003c\/em\u003e Marie Antoinette \u003cem\u003e(2006) are masterpieces. What can be better than a book of criticism that leads one to revise one's own aesthetic judgments?”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Choice\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“Overall, the book itself is very analytical and informative. It empowers its readers to recognize how women can be strong in films, even when the plot tries to control them. Backman Rogers’s analysis of Coppola’s works highlights how feminism shines through in a cinematic art form. This book is a must-read for those interested in seeing how women should and should not be portrayed on-screen.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Film Matters\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“With this book Rogers has produced a sophisticated and impassioned analysis of Coppola’s work… Rogers’s main argument – that Coppola manipulates pleasurable images to unsettle rather than mollify us – is utterly convincing. If nothing else, this certainly hits home in relation to my own enchantment with Coppola’s work.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Bright Lights Film Journal\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eAnna Backman Rogers’ \u003c\/em\u003eSofia Coppola \u003cem\u003esheds light onto the intelligent and subversive\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e workings of Sofia Coppola’s cinematic vision, that has long been dismissed and overlooked by\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e film scholars and critics alike. At the same time, …Roger’s book offers gravity and seriousness to the academic study of the pretty filmic image. Each chapter’s subject is rigorously researched and analysed, whilst offering a meticulous theoretic approach, crafted by a constellation of appropriate theories and philosophical ideas.\u003c\/em\u003e” \u003cstrong\u003e• \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrames Cinema Journal\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“The author’s analysis of Coppola’s movies is strong even without her defense of the filmmaker. The points Rogers makes, regarding both form and content, validate Sofia Coppola’s placement in the history of cinema.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e• \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHyperallergic\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This is a forceful and necessary feminist intervention in film theory; Anna Backman Rogers brilliantly carves out a space for work that is usually marginalized as pretty, as superficial, as ineffable, insisting we reckon head-on with the politics of seeing the world through a woman’s perspective. And she does it in wonderfully straight-talking prose that doesn't shy away from controversy, underlining how necessary it is to tackle these questions, now more than ever.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Lauren Elkin\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eFlâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This work on Coppola makes a genuinely significant contribution to the field of film studies—the writing on \u003c\/em\u003eThe Virgin Suicides \u003cem\u003eis simply the best I have read. It is a radical work, in keeping with the radical, subversive and beautiful films it does justice to.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Lucy Bolton\u003c\/strong\u003e, Queen Mary, University of London\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“Anna Backman Rogers has produced a timely, beautifully written, and trailblazing account of female authorship and femininity in contemporary cinema, full of both conviction and compassion.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Davina Quinlivan\u003c\/strong\u003e, Kingston University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Surface of The Image is Political\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART I: IMAGING ABSENCE AS ABJECTION AND IMAGING THE FEMALE GOTHIC AS RAGE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Virgin Suicides\u003c\/em\u003e (1999)\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Beguiled\u003c\/em\u003e (2017)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART II: EMPTY SUBJECTIVITIES AND MASCULINITY AS VOID\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eLost in Translation\u003c\/em\u003e (2003)\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eSomewhere \u003c\/em\u003e(2010)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART III: THE FEMALE BODY AS PATRIARCHAL CURRENCY AND THE COMMODIFICATION OF FEMALE IDENTITY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eMarie Antoinette\u003c\/em\u003e (2006)\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Bling Ring\u003c\/em\u003e (2013)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eConclusion:\u003c\/strong\u003e On Beguilement\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tReferences\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51138367455575,"sku":"9781785339653","price":99.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781785339653.jpg?v=1751919121","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sofia-coppola-the-politics-of-visual-pleasure-9781785339653","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}