📗 Libro en inglés SOFIA COPPOLA: THE POLITICS OF VISUAL PLEASURE

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 Coppola39s 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 Coppola39s films instead deploy beguilement mood and pleasure in the service of a robustly feminist philosophy