Naaman Wood, Christopher Booth

A Critical Companion to Sofia Coppola

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume offers eight interdisciplinary readings to the films of Sophia Ford Coppola, analyzing her oeuvre with a focus on her treatment of masculinity, sexual politics, bodies, and love.

Produktdetails

• Critical Companions to Contemporary Directors
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9781793636799
• ISBN-10: 1793636796
• Artikelnr.: 64054717

Autorenporträt

Naaman K. Wood is professor in the Communication Department at Saint Paul College. Christopher Booth is professor in the Music Department at Old Dominion University.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: MASCULINITY
Chapter 1. An Alternative Masculinity: The Habuitus of Vulnerability,
Presence, and Mundane Delight in Somewhere (2010)
Chapter 2. Limits of Masculinity: Excess, Mimicry, and Ambivalence in The
Virgin Suicides (1999)
PART II: SEXUAL POLITICS
Chapter 3. A Limited Liberation: Film Music, Suture, Feminism, and
Anachronism in Marie Antoinette (2006)
Chapter 4. Tables Turned: Hospitality, Phallogocentrism, and Virginity in
The Beguiled (2017)
PART III: BODIES
Chapter 5. A Bodily Desire: (Micro)celebrity, Celebrity Culture as
Parareligion, and the Erotic in The Bling Ring (2013)
Chapter 6. An Embodied Joy: Carnivalesque Subversions and Grotesque Bodies
in A Very Murray Christmas (2015)
PART IV: LOVE
Chapter 7. A Liminal Love: Charles Taylor's Malaise and Chela Sandoval's
Decolonial Love in Lost in Translation (2003)
Chapter 8. A Managed Love: Emotional Labor, Exhaustion, and Unhappiness in
On the Rocks (2020)