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Sofia Coppola: The Politics of Visual Pleasure by Anna Backman Rogers (Hardcover, 2018)

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ISBN-13: 9781785339653, 978-1785339653. All too often, the movies of Sofia Coppola have been dismissed as "all style, no substance.". She knows that similar kinds of images can have vastly different effects on the viewer depending on their context. This monograph is an extended study of Coppola's outstanding ability to think through and in images.

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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.