![]() ![]() In this original study, Handyside brings critical attention to a rare female auteur and in so doing contributes to important analyses of post-feminism, authorship in film, and the growing field of girlhood studies. ![]() These characters inhabit luminous worlds of girlish adornments, light and sparkle and yet find homes in unexpected places from hotels to swimming pools, palaces to strip clubs: resisting stereotypes and the ordinary. ![]() Chapters reveal a post-feminist aesthetic that offers sustained, intimate engagements with female characters. 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. 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. Time and again, then, Coppola makes films that might seem on the surface to be as delicate and pretty as the macarons that Marie Antoinette shares with her friends. I also worked for a year as a Lectrice at Universite Michel de Montaigne in Bordeaux. 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. Professor Fiona Handyside Associate Professor in Film Studies 4208 01392 724208 Overview Research Publications Supervision Teaching Other I grew up in Paignton, Devon, and was educated at the Universities of Southampton, Nottingham, Strasbourg and London. ![]()
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