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Call No: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: COPPOLA, SOFIA

Call No: 751.0(73) SEX
Author: Sexton, Jamie
Edition: 2023
Place: Edinburgh
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
PubDate: 2023
PhysDes: viii, 202 pages : illustrated
Series: Music and the moving image series
Subject: ROCK MUSIC IN FILMS; INDEPENDENT FILMS. USA; ARAKI, GREGG; COPPOLA, SOFIA; SMITHEREENS (US, Susan Seidelman, 1982); SUBURBIA (US, Penelope Spheeris, 1983); PARIAH (US, Randolph Kret, 1998); SORRY TO BOTHER YOU (US, Boots Riley, 2018); DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILISATION, THE (US, Penelope Spheeris, 1981); LADIES AND GENTLEMEN THE FABULOUS STAINS (CN, Lou Adler, 1982)
Summary: The first academic book to explore indie music and indie music cultures on screen. Combines historical, cultural, aesthetic and industry analysis to explore the functions and broader appeal of indie music on film Includes analyses of indie punk scenes on film Examines gender and racial issues within indie music and film Freak Scenes explores the increased licensing of indie music and representation of indie music cultures within American independent cinema since the 1980s. Indie music has, since the 2000s, become highlighted in some indie films as an attraction, but this book probes how the appeal of indie music stretches back to the late 1970s, when punk music made its impact on filmmaking. Sexton looks at a range of issues where indie music and indie film intersect, including commercial concerns, the growth of niche marketing, the increased employment of popular music in cinema and questions of authenticity, as well as the fraught tensions between commercial and artistic concerns. Case studies include: sonic authorship and indie music, representations of punk and indie scenes on screen, and an exploration of how racial and gender issues inform the representation and reception of indie cultures on film. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781474414067
Contents: Introduction -- A Brief History of Indie Music in American Indie Film -- Sonic Authorship 1: Gregg Araki -- Sonic Authorship 2: Sofia Coppola -- Documenting Scenes and Performers 1: Punk, Smithereens and Suburbia -- Documenting Scenes and Performers 2: Grunge and Riot Grrrl -- Indie Music, Film, and Race 1: Medicine for Melancholy and Pariah -- Indie Music, Film, and Race 2: Sorry to Bother You -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Call No: 81COP HAN
Author: Handyside, Fiona
Source: UK/US
Place: London ; New York
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
PubDate: 2017
PhysDes: ix, 201 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series: International Library of the Moving Image ; 39
Subject: COPPOLA, SOFIA; STARS. USA; FEMININITY IN FILMS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; HOUSES AND GARDENS IN FILMS; VIRGIN SUICIDES, THE (US, Sofia Coppola, 2000); LOST IN TRANSLATION (US, Sofia Coppola, 2003); MARIE ANTOINETTE (US, Sofia Coppola, 2006); SOMEWHERE (US/UK/IT/JA, Sofia Coppola, 2010); BLING RING, THE (US/UK/G/FR, Sofia Coppola, 2013)
Summary: Sofia Coppola is widely regarded as one of the most astute, provocative and visionary directors in the contemporary film industry. 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. 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. 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
ISBN: 9781784537159
Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1.Sofia Coppola: Postfeminist [d]au[gh]te[u]r? -- 2.Luminous Girlhoods: Sparkle and Light in Coppola's Films -- 3.`There's No Place Like Home!' The Exploded Home as Postfeminist Chronotope -- 4.Dressing Up and Playing About: Costume and Fashion

Call No: 81COP BAC
Author: Backman Rogers, Anna
Source: US
Place: New York; Oxford
Publisher: Berghahn Books
PubDate: [2019]
PhysDes: 177 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject: WOMEN, FILMS MADE BY; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN DIRECTORS; WOMEN IN FILMS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; CRITICISM; USA; COPPOLA, SOFIA; VIRGIN SUICIDES, THE (US, Sofia Coppola, 2000); BEGUILED, THE (US, Sofia Coppola, 2017); LOST IN TRANSLATION (US, Sofia Coppola, 2003); SOMEWHERE (US/UK/IT/JA, Sofia Coppola, 2010); MARIE ANTOINETTE (US, Sofia Coppola, 2006); BLING RING, THE (US/UK/G/FR, Sofia Coppola, 2013)
Summary: "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 misconstrues 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." - taken from back cover.
ISBN: 9781785339752
Contents: Introduction : the surface of the image is political -- Part I. Imaging absence as abjection and imaging the female gothic as rage. Chapter 1. The Virgin Suicides (1999) -- Chapter 2. The Beguiled (2017) -- Part II. Empty subjectivities and masculinity as void. Chapter 3. Lost in Translation (2003) -- Chapter 4. Somewhere (2010) -- Part III. The female body as patriarchal currency and the commodification of female identity. Chapter 5. Marie Antoinette (2006) -- Chapter 6. The Bling Ring (2013) -- Conclusion : On Beguilement.

Call No: 81 COP STR
Author: Strong, Hannah
Edition: 2022
Place: New York
Publisher: Abrams
PubDate: 2022
PhysDes: 287 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 29 cm.
Subject: COPPOLA, SOFIA
Summary: An illustrated critical survey of Academy Award–winning writer and director Sofia Coppola’s career, covering everything from her groundbreaking music videos through her latest films In the two decades since her first feature film was released, Sofia Coppola has created a tonally diverse, meticulously crafted, and unapologetically hyperfeminine aesthetic across a wide range of multimedia work. Her films explore untenable relationships and the euphoria and heartbreak these entail, and Coppola develops these themes deftly and with discernment across her movies and music videos. From The Virgin Suicides and Marie Antoinette to Lost in Translation and The Beguiled, Coppola’s award-nominated filmography is also unique in how its consistent visual aesthetic is informed by and in conversation with contemporary fine art and photography. Sofia Coppola offers a rich and intimate look at the overarching stylistic and thematic components of Coppola's work. In addition to critical essays about Coppola's filmography, the book will include interviews with some of her closest collaborators, including musician Jean-Benoît Dunckel and costume designer Nancy Steiner, along with a foreword by Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher. It engages with her creative output while celebrating her talent as an imagemaker and storyteller. Along the way, readers meet again a cast of characters mired in the ennui of missed connections: loneliness, frustrated creativity, rebellious adolescence, and the double-edged knife of celebrity, all captured by the emotional, intimate power of the female gaze. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781419755521

Call No: 802.25(71) MOT
Author: Mottram, James
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Faber and Faber
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: xxix, 480 p. : ill. ; 24cm
Subject: INDEPENDENT FILMS. USA; SUNDANCE INSTITUTE; SODERBERGH, STEVEN; Tarantino, Quentin; RUSSELL, DAVID O.; RODRIGUEZ, ROBERT; LINKLATER, RICHARD; FINCHER, DAVID; JONZE, SPIKE; ANDERSON, PAUL THOMAS; ANDERSON, WES; LEONARD, ELMORE; COPPOLA, SOFIA; PEIRCE, KIMBERLY; SINGER, BRYAN; KAUFMAN, CHARLIE; PAYNE, ALEXANDER
Summary: From Publishers Weekly Mottram covers the same territory Sharon Waxman did in 2005's Rebels on the Backlot, including extensive considerations of directors Steven Soderbergh and Quentin Tarantino, but the British film journalist adds several filmmakers into the mix, including Sofia Coppola and Wes Anderson, concentrating primarily on hot young talents discovered at the Sundance Film Festival. He's also more interested in what's on the screen than Waxman was, so nearly every chapter has lengthy analyses of the movies discussed. But these interpretive flights distract from the reportage, especially when Mottram dismisses successful directors like Robert Rodriguez (who arguably have taken back Hollywood) because he doesn't consider movies like Spy Kids mature enough for serious consideration, or when he insists on linking every modern maverick to a counterpart in '70s cinema. He also links some films together by simplistic means, grouping a trilogy of films set in high schools in one chapter and building another chapter around Elmore Leonard adaptations. Mottram does give insight into the career trajectories of a few of his subjects, most notably Soderbergh, David Fincher and Bryan Singer, making his history a useful starting point.
Notes: Includes notes, general index and index of films
ISBN: 0571222676

Call No: 81 VIR WYA
Author: Wyatt, Justin
Edition: 2018
Place: New York and London
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2018
PhysDes: 110 pages : illustrated ; 23 cm
Series: cinema and youth cultures; 7
Subject: VIRGIN SUICIDES, THE (US, Sofia Coppola, 2000); MARIE ANTOINETTE (US, Sofia Coppola, 2006); PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (AT, Peter Weir, 1975); COPPOLA, SOFIA
Summary: Based on the best-selling novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides is director Sofia Coppola’s evocative debut feature of young love, sex, loss and family pressures in mid-1970s America. Acclaimed by both critics and audiences on release, the film is now viewed as a remarkable and bold feature by a significant female director addressing many issues related to youth, female sexuality and family. This book helps readers understand the film’s significance and the stylistic and storytelling choices made by director Coppola. The analysis of the film occurs around three interlocking arguments: the unusual structuring absence in the film, the intricate manner through which music is used in the drama, communication and character creation, and the film’s careful and specific referencing of advertising in the 1970s (the decade of the film’s narrative). The film’s enigmatic structure and unique storytelling devices and their relationship to female adolescence, sexuality and ideology are also considered in depth. Without solving the mysteries of the film, the book is designed to uncover the reasons why the film continues to fascinate viewers so many years after its release. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781138046443
Contents: Introduction -- Chapter 1: 1990s Indie Cinema and the Path to The Virgin Suicides -- Chapter 2: Next Gen Coppola: Legacy, Loss and the Burden of Biography -- Chapter 3: The Enigma of The Virgin Suicides -- Chapter 4: Music, Storytelling and Young Love -- Chapter 5: The Advertising Aesthetic and Youth Culture of The Virgin Suicides -- Chapter 6: Sofia Coppola: The Virgin Suicides, Identity and Difference.