Professor Suzanne Ferriss

Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation (2003) brings two Americans together in Tokyo, each experiencing a personal crisis. Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), a recent graduate in philosophy, faces an uncertain professional future, while Bob Harris (Bill Murray), an established celebrity, questions his choices at midlife. Both are distant—emotionally and spatially—from their spouses. They are lost until they develop an intimate connection. In...

The Cinema of Sofia Coppola provides the first comprehensive analysis of Coppola’s oeuvre, situating her work broadly in relation to contemporary artistic, social, and cultural currents. Suzanne Ferriss considers the central role of fashion—in its various manifestations—in Coppola’s films. She explores fashion’s primacy in every cinematic dimension: in film narrative; production, costume and sound design; cinematography; marketing, distribution, and auteur...