![]() ![]() ![]() In this original study, Handyside brings critical attention to a rare female auteur and in so doing contributes to important analyses of post-feminism, authorship in film, and the growing field of girlhood studies. These characters inhabit luminous worlds of girlish adornments, light and sparkle and yet find homes in unexpected places from hotels to swimming pools, palaces to strip clubs: resisting stereotypes and the ordinary. ![]() Sofia Coppolas triumphant win at Cannes as best director for The. Read more aesthetic that offers sustained, intimate engagements with female characters. Fiona Handyside, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Exeter. 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. 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. 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. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Num Pages: 224 pages, 17 black and white illustrations. Series: International Library of the Moving Image. Sofia Coppola is widely regarded as one of the most astute, provocative and visionary directors in the contemporary film industry. Description for Sofia Coppola: A Cinema of Girlhood (International Library of the Moving Image) Hardcover. ![]()
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