Anna Backman Rogers

Sofia Coppola

The Politics of Visual Pleasure

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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 servic… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-78533-975-2
EAN: 9781785339752
Produktnummer: 27228144
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 188 S.
Masse: H22.8 cm x B14.9 cm x D1.5 cm 278 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 278

Über den Autor

Anna Backman Rogers is a Associate Professor/Reader in Feminist Philosophy and Visual Culture at the University of Gothenburg in 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.