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Sofia Coppola: A Cinema of Girlhood
Fiona Handyside
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Description for Sofia Coppola: A Cinema of Girlhood
Hardcover. Sofia Coppola is widely regarded as one of the most astute, provocative and visionary directors in the contemporary film industry. Series: International Library of the Moving Image. Num Pages: 224 pages, 17 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFB; JFFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 22. Weight in Grams: 520.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
International Library of the Moving Image
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784537142
SKU
V9781784537142
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About Fiona Handyside
Fiona Handyside is Senior Lecturer in European Film at the University of Exeter and received her PhD from Queen Mary, University of London. Previous publications include International Cinema and the Girl: Local Issues, Transnational Contexts (2015) and Cinema at the Shore: The Beach in French Cinema (2014) and her research has appeared in a number of journals such as Continuum: ... Read more
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