Sofia Coppola: The Politics of Visual Pleasure

Sofia Coppola: The Politics of Visual Pleasure
ISBN-10
1785339656
ISBN-13
9781785339653
Series
Sofia Coppola
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
200
Language
English
Published
2018-11-01
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Author
Anna Backman Rogers

Description

All 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 miscontrues what are rich, ambiguous, meaningful films. Drawing 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 The Virgin Suicides to the “female gothic” in The Beguiled. 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.

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