Robert C. Sickels

Sofia Coppola and Generation X (So Far) (eBook, ePUB)

Anxious and Effervescent

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

While the work of Sofia Coppola is sometimes dismissed as being stereotypically feminine and placing more focus on spectacle over substance, Sofia Coppola and Generation X (So Far): Anxious and Effervescent draws attention to common characteristics present in Coppola's films to present an authorial signature and aesthetic that are both familiar yet evocative of Generation X's perception in the public consciousness. In analyzing Coppola's films from The Virgin Suicides (1999) to Priscilla (2023), this book argues that her filmography acts as a reflection of her generation's evolving mindset and self-image from its initial rise to prominence during the late 1980s to its current sentiment of discomfort with its fading influence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781793655851
• Artikelnr.: 74939103

Autorenporträt

Robert C. Sickels is professor of film & media studies at Whitman College and the Alma Meisnest Chair of Humanities.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Anxious and Effervescent
Chapter 2: "You like me, don't you?" The Virgin Suicides (1999)
Chapter 3: "Does it get easier?" Lost in Translation (2003)
Chapter 4: "This is ridiculous." Marie Antoinette (2006)
Chapter 5: I'm fucking nothing." Somewhere (2010)
Chapter 6: "Girls! Time for your Adderall!" The Bling Ring (2013)
Chapter 7: "This is a nightmare. I can't do this." A Very Murray Christmas
(2013)
Chapter 8: "I'm as blunt as I need to be." The Beguiled (2017)
Chapter 9: "You can't go deaf to women's voices. You know that, right?" On
the Rocks (2020)
Chapter 10: "You're losing me to a life of my own." Priscilla (2023)
Chapter 11: "Listen to the girl / As she takes on half the world."