List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction - Suzanne Ferriss (Nova Southeastern University, USA)
I The Big Screen
1. The Virgin Suicides
The Cinematic Style of Loss: Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides - Justin Wyatt (University of Rhode Island, USA)
2. Lost in Translation
Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation: Liminality, Loneliness, and Learning from an-Other - Lucy Bolton (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
3. Marie Antoinette
The Journey: The Reception of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette - Nicole Richter (Wright State University, USA)
4. Somewhere
Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere: The Most American of European Films - Todd Kennedy (Nicholls State University, USA)
5. The Bling Ring
Surface Play: Aesthetics and Performance in Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring - Maryn Wilkinson (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
6. The Beguiled
The Knowledge of Feeling in Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled - Michelle Devereaux (University of Warwick, UK)
7. On the Rocks
Sofia Coppola’s On the Rocks and “Personal” Filmmaking - Suzanne Ferriss (Nova Southeastern University, USA)
II Small(er) Screens and Streaming
8. Music Videos
“If You Don’t Have At Least Two Careers, You Don’t Fit In”: Transmedia Authorship and the Music Videos of Sofia Coppola - Mathias Bonde Korsgaard (Aarhus University, Denmark)
9. Short Film
Girls Rule in Sofia Coppola’s Lick the Star - Cynthia Felando (University of California Santa Barbara, USA)
10. Television
Rewriting the (Christmas) Genre: The Legacy of Robert Altman in Sofia Coppola’s A Very Murray Christmas - Todd Kennedy (Nicholls State University, USA)
11. Advertising
Fashion Campaigns: Sofia Coppola’s “Mini-Films” - Caryn Simonson (University of Arts London, UK)
III “Coppolism”
12. Cinematography
Sofia Coppola’s Minimalist Mystique - Cameron Beyl (Independent filmmaker)
13. Fine Art and Photography
Art on Film/Film as Art: Sofia Coppola’s Cinema - Suzanne Ferriss (Nova Southeastern University, USA)
14. Music
The Feeling of the Moment: Music in the Cinema of Sofia Coppola - Tim J. Anderson (Old Dominion University, USA)
15. Design
Designing Luxury: Sofia Coppola’s Production Design - Saige Walton (University of South Australia, Australia)
16. Acting
Sofia Coppola, Indiewood, and Performance - Cynthia Barron (Bowling Green State University, USA) & Yannis Tzioumakis (University of Liverpool, UK)
IV Interpretations
17. Auteurism
Sofia Coppola: Commodity Auteur - Pam Cook (University of Southampton, UK)
18. Curation
Sofia Coppola: The Auteur as Curator - Lawrence Webb (University of Sussex, UK)
19. Feminism
“You Cannot Go Deaf to Women’s Voices”: Feminism and the Films of Sofia Coppola - Anna Backman Rogers (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
20. Postfeminism
Postfeminist Approaches to Sofia Coppola - Fiona Handyside (University of Exeter, UK)
21. Race and Class
Making Whiteness: The Absent Presence of Race and Class in Sofia Coppola’s Feature Films - Jamie Ann Rogers (Clemson University, USA)
22. Place
Psychogeography and Cinema(car)tography: Cinematic Tourism and Sofia Coppola’s Films - Laura Henderson (University of Melbourne, Australia)
23. Celebrity
Celebrity in Sofia Coppola’s Cinema: The Aesthetics of Performance - Delphine Letort (Université du Maine, France)
V Reception
24. Critical Reception
“All That Style Overwhelms the Substance”: The Critical Reception of Sofia Coppola’s Work - Katarzyna Paszkiewicz (University of the Balearic Islands, Spain)
25. Academic Response
Sofia Coppola in the Curriculum: Feminist Film Pedagogies - Emma McNicol, Whitney Monaghan, Grace Russell, and Belinda Smaill (Monash University, Australia)
26. Popular Reaction
Sofia Coppola, Cosmopolitan Icon - Sara Pesce (University of Bologna, Italy)
Sofia Coppola: A Timeline
References
Filmography
List of Contributors
Index
