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Book SynopsisThe Bloomsbury Handbook to Sofia Coppola offers the first comprehensive overview of the director''s impressive oeuvre. It includes individual chapters on her films, including
The Virgin Suicides (1999),
Lost in Translation (2003),
Marie Antoinette (2006),
Somewhere (2010),
The Bling Ring (2013),
The Beguiled (2017), and
On the Rocks (2020). While focused on her films, contributors also consider Coppola''s shorter works for television, commercials and music videos, as well as explorations of the distinct elements of her signature style: cinematography, production/costume design, music, and editing. Additional chapters provide insights into the influences on her work, its popular and scholarly reception, and interpretations of key themes and issues.The international team of contributors includes leading scholars of film, music, fashion, celebrity and gender studies, visual and material culture, reception studies, as well as industr
Trade ReviewThis Handbook provides the most significant work to date on Sofia Coppola compiled in a single volume, and focuses on a wide range of topics, some of which have received little scholarly attention to date. In time to come it will surely establish itself as a touchstone text. -- Joel Gwynne, National Institute of Education, Singapore
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sofia Coppola should have one word added to its title: it is undoubtedly the essential handbook to the filmmaker and cultural icon at its center. The essays included here are not only informative introductions but compelling, thought-provoking, and sometimes surprising re-evaluations of one of the most interesting celebrity artists in the contemporary media scene. -- Mallory Young, Tarleton State University, USA
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction -
Suzanne Ferriss (Nova Southeastern University, USA) I The Big Screen 1.
The Virgin Suicides The Cinematic Style of Loss: Sofia Coppola’s
The Virgin Suicides -
Justin Wyatt (University of Rhode Island, USA) 2.
Lost in Translation Sofia Coppola’s
Lost in Translation: Liminality, Loneliness, and Learning from an-Other -
Lucy Bolton (Queen Mary University of London, UK) 3.
Marie Antoinette The Journey: The Reception of Sofia Coppola’s
Marie Antoinette -
Nicole Richter (Wright State University, USA) 4.
Somewhere Sofia Coppola’s
Somewhere: The Most American of European Films -
Todd Kennedy (Nicholls State University, USA) 5.
The Bling Ring Surface Play: Aesthetics and Performance in Sofia Coppola’s
The Bling Ring -
Maryn Wilkinson (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) 6.
The Beguiled The Knowledge of Feeling in Sofia Coppola’s
The Beguiled - Michelle Devereaux (University of Warwick, UK) 7.
On the Rocks Sofia Coppola’s
On the Rocks and “Personal” Filmmaking -
Suzanne Ferriss (Nova Southeastern University, USA) II Small(er) Screens and Streaming 8. Music Videos “If You Don’t Have At Least Two Careers, You Don’t Fit In”: Transmedia Authorship and the Music Videos of Sofia Coppola -
Mathias Bonde Korsgaard (Aarhus University, Denmark) 9. Short Film Girls Rule in Sofia Coppola’s
Lick the Star -
Cynthia Felando (University of California Santa Barbara, USA) 10. Television Rewriting the (Christmas) Genre: The Legacy of Robert Altman in Sofia Coppola’s
A Very Murray Christmas -
Todd Kennedy (Nicholls State University, USA) 11. Advertising Fashion Campaigns: Sofia Coppola’s “Mini-Films” -
Caryn Simonson (University of Arts London, UK) III “Coppolism” 12. Cinematography Sofia Coppola’s Minimalist Mystique -
Cameron Beyl (Independent filmmaker) 13. Fine Art and Photography Art on Film/Film as Art: Sofia Coppola’s Cinema
- Suzanne Ferriss (Nova Southeastern University, USA) 14. Music The Feeling of the Moment: Music in the Cinema of Sofia Coppola -
Tim J. Anderson (Old Dominion University, USA) 15. Design Designing Luxury: Sofia Coppola’s Production Design -
Saige Walton (University of South Australia, Australia) 16. Acting Sofia Coppola, Indiewood, and Performance -
Cynthia Barron (Bowling Green State University, USA) & Yannis Tzioumakis (University of Liverpool, UK) IV Interpretations 17. Auteurism Sofia Coppola: Commodity Auteur -
Pam Cook (University of Southampton, UK) 18. Curation Sofia Coppola: The Auteur as Curator - Lawrence Webb (University of Sussex, UK) 19. Feminism “You Cannot Go Deaf to Women’s Voices”: Feminism and the Films of Sofia Coppola -
Anna Backman Rogers (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) 20. Postfeminism Postfeminist Approaches to Sofia Coppola -
Fiona Handyside (University of Exeter, UK) 21. Race and Class Making Whiteness: The Absent Presence of Race and Class in Sofia Coppola’s Feature Films -
Jamie Ann Rogers (Clemson University, USA) 22. Place Psychogeography and Cinema(car)tography: Cinematic Tourism and Sofia Coppola’s Films -
Laura Henderson (University of Melbourne, Australia) 23. Celebrity Celebrity in Sofia Coppola’s Cinema: The Aesthetics of Performance -
Delphine Letort (Université du Maine, France) V Reception 24. Critical Reception “All That Style Overwhelms the Substance”: The Critical Reception of Sofia Coppola’s Work -
Katarzyna Paszkiewicz (University of the Balearic Islands, Spain) 25. Academic Response Sofia Coppola in the Curriculum: Feminist Film Pedagogies -
Emma McNicol, Whitney Monaghan, Grace Russell, and Belinda Smaill (Monash University, Australia) 26. Popular Reaction Sofia Coppola, Cosmopolitan Icon -
Sara Pesce (University of Bologna, Italy) Sofia Coppola: A Timeline References Filmography List of Contributors Index
