The films of Sofia Coppola have moved and entranced audiences with her minimalist style, moody soundscapes, and commitment to centering the lives and experiences of women and girls.A Critical Companion to Sofia Coppola explores the implications of her stories, images, and convictions in a comprehensive study of all eight of her major works. Drawing from a wide range of disciplines, each chapter offers a fresh, interdisciplinary reading of one of Coppolas films and her treatment of core themes like masculinity, sexual politics, bodies, and love. Rigorously researched and unique, the arguments presented within this volume shed new light on one of the most important women filmmakers in film history.

Naaman Wood is professor in the Communication Department at Saint Paul College.

Christopher Boothis professor in the Music Department at Old Dominion University.

PART I: MASCULINITY

Chapter 1. An Alternative Masculinity:The Habuitus of Vulnerability, Presence, and Mundane Delight inSomewhere (2010)

Chapter 2. Limits of Masculinity: Excess, Mimicry, and Ambivalence inThe 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 inThe 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 Taylors Malaise and Chela Sandovals Decolonial Love in Lost in Translation (2003)

Chapter 8. A Managed Love: Emotional Labor, Exhaustion, and Unhappiness in On the Rocks (2020)