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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.

ISBN-13: 9781785339752

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Berghahn Books - Incorporated

Publication Date: 11-29-2018

Pages: 200

Product Dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

Anna Backman Rogers is Professor of Aesthetics and Culture specialising in Feminist Theory at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She is the author of American Independent Cinema: Rites of Passage and the Crisis Image (2015) and the co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of the experimental journal MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Surface of The Image is Political

PART I: IMAGING ABSENCE AS ABJECTION AND IMAGING THE FEMALE GOTHIC AS RAGE

Chapter 1. The Virgin Suicides (1999)
Chapter 2. The Beguiled (2017)

PART II: EMPTY SUBJECTIVITIES AND MASCULINITY AS VOID

Chapter 3. Lost in Translation (2003)
Chapter 4. Somewhere (2010)

PART III: THE FEMALE BODY AS PATRIARCHAL CURRENCY AND THE COMMODIFICATION OF FEMALE IDENTITY

Chapter 5. Marie Antoinette (2006)
Chapter 6. The Bling Ring (2013)

Conclusion: On Beguilement

References
Index