List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction - Suzanne Ferriss (Nova Southeastern University, USA)
I The Big Screen
1. The Virgin Suicides
The Cinematic Style of Loss: Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides - Justin Wyatt (University of Rhode Island, USA)
2. Lost in Translation
Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation: Liminality, Loneliness, and Learning from an-Other - Lucy Bolton (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
3. Marie Antoinette
The Journey: The Reception of Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette - Nicole Richter (Wright State University, USA)
4. Somewhere
Sofia Coppola's Somewhere: The Most American of European Films - Todd Kennedy (Nicholls State University, USA)
5. The Bling Ring
Surface Play: Aesthetics and Performance in Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring - Maryn Wilkinson (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
6. The Beguiled
The Knowledge of Feeling in Sofia Coppola's The Beguiled - Michelle Devereaux (University of Warwick, UK)
7. On the Rocks
Sofia Coppola's On the Rocks and "Personal" Filmmaking - Suzanne Ferriss (Nova Southeastern University, USA)
II Small(er) Screens and Streaming
8. Music Videos
"If You Don't Have At Least Two Careers, You Don't Fit In": Transmedia Authorship and the Music Videos of Sofia Coppola - Mathias Bonde Korsgaard (Aarhus University, Denmark)
9. Short Film
Girls Rule in Sofia Coppola's Lick the Star - Cynthia Felando (University of California Santa Barbara, USA)
10. Television
Rewriting the (Christmas) Genre: The Legacy of Robert Altman in Sofia Coppola's A Very Murray Christmas - Todd Kennedy (Nicholls State University, USA)
11. Advertising
Fashion Campaigns: Sofia Coppola's "Mini-Films" - Caryn Simonson (University of Arts London, UK)
III "Coppolism"
12. Cinematography
Sofia Coppola's Minimalist Mystique - Cameron Beyl (Independent filmmaker)
13. Fine Art and Photography
Art on Film/Film as Art: Sofia Coppola's Cinema - Suzanne Ferriss (Nova Southeastern University, USA)
14. Music
The Feeling of the Moment: Music in the Cinema of Sofia Coppola - Tim J. Anderson (Old Dominion University, USA)
15. Design
Designing Luxury: Sofia Coppola's Production Design - Saige Walton (University of South Australia, Australia)
16. Acting
Sofia Coppola, Indiewood, and Performance - Cynthia Barron (Bowling Green State University, USA) & Yannis Tzioumakis (University of Liverpool, UK)
IV Interpretations
17. Auteurism
Sofia Coppola: Commodity Auteur - Pam Cook (University of Southampton, UK)
18. Curation
Sofia Coppola: The Auteur as Curator - Lawrence Webb (University of Sussex, UK)
19. Feminism
"You Cannot Go Deaf to Women's Voices": Feminism and the Films of Sofia Coppola - Anna Backman Rogers (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
20. Postfeminism
Postfeminist Approaches to Sofia Coppola - Fiona Handyside (University of Exeter, UK)
21. Race and Class
Making Whiteness: The Absent Presence of Race and Class in Sofia Coppola's Feature Films - Jamie Ann Rogers (Clemson University, USA)
22. Place
Psychogeography and Cinema(car)tography: Cinematic Tourism and Sofia Coppola's Films - Laura Henderson (University of Melbourne, Australia)
23. Celebrity
Celebrity in Sofia Coppola's Cinema: The Aesthetics of Performance - Delphine Letort (Université du Maine, France)
V Reception
24. Critical Reception
"All That Style Overwhelms the Substance": The Critical Reception of Sofia Coppola's Work - Katarzyna Paszkiewicz (University of the Balearic Islands, Spain)
25. Academic Response
Sofia Coppola in the Curriculum: Feminist Film Pedagogies - Emma McNicol, Whitney Monaghan, Grace Russell, and Belinda Smaill (Monash University, Australia)
26. Popular Reaction
Sofia Coppola, Cosmopolitan Icon - Sara Pesce (University of Bologna, Italy)
Sofia Coppola: A Timeline
References
Filmography
List of Contributors
Index

Suzanne Ferriss is Professor Emerita at Nova Southeastern University, USA. She has published extensively on literature, film, fashion and cultural studies. She is the author of The Cinema of Sofia Coppola (Bloomsbury, 2021), co-editor of On Fashion (1994), Footnotes: On Shoes (2001), Chick Lit: The New Women's Fiction (2006) and Chick Flicks: Contemporary Women at the Movies (2008), among other titles. She has also co-authored Motorcycle (2008) and An Alternative History of Bicycles and Motorcycles (2016).

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sofia Coppola offers the first comprehensive overview of the director's impressive oeuvre. It includes individual chapters on her films, including The Virgin Suicides (1999), Lost in Translation (2003), Marie Antoinette (2006), Somewhere (2010), The Bling Ring (2013), The Beguiled (2017), and On the Rocks (2020).
While focused on her films, contributors also consider Coppola's shorter works for television, commercials and music videos, as well as explorations of the distinct elements of her signature style: cinematography, production/costume design, music, and editing. Additional chapters provide insights into the influences on her work, its popular and scholarly reception, and interpretations of key themes and issues.
The international team of contributors includes leading scholars of film, music, fashion, celebrity and gender studies, visual and material culture, reception studies, as well as industry professionals. Their interdisciplinary insights capture the complexities of Coppola's work and its cultural significance.