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Author_Anna Backman Rogers
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coppola
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female directors
feminist film theory
feminist theory
lost in translation
Marie Antoinette
sofia coppola
Somewhere
The Beguiled
The Bling Ring
the virgin suicides
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- ISBN 9781785339752
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 29 Nov 2018
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Anna Backman Rogers is a Senior Lecturer in Feminist Philosophy and Visual Culture at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Her publications include American Independent Cinema: Rites of Passage and the Crisis Image (2015) and the collection Female Agency and Documentary Strategies: Subjectivities, Identity and Activism (2018, coedited with Boel Ulfsdotter).
