{"title":"Professor Suzanne Ferriss","description":"\u003cp\u003eProfessor Suzanne Ferriss offers insightful explorations into contemporary arts and culture, with a particular focus on cinema and its cultural impact. Her works, such as \u003cem\u003eLost in Translation\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Cinema of Sofia Coppola\u003c\/em\u003e, delve into the nuances of film, identity, and artistic expression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful analysis combined with accessible prose, making complex cultural subjects engaging and illuminating. Ferriss’s writing invites reflection on the intersections of art, society, and personal experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"lost-in-translation-by-professor-suzanne-ferriss-9781839024917","title":"Lost in Translation","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSofia Coppola’s \u003cem\u003eLost in Translation\u003c\/em\u003e (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 film’s poignant, famously ambiguous closing scene, they find each other, only to separate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this close look at the multi-award-winning film, Suzanne Ferriss mirrors \u003cem\u003eLost in Translation\u003c\/em\u003e’s structuring device of travel: her analysis takes the form of a trip, from planning to departure. She details the complexities of filming (a 27-day shoot with no permits in Tokyo), explores Coppola’s allusions to fine art, subtle colour palette and use of music over words, and examines the characters’ experiences of the Park Hyatt Tokyo and excursions outside, together and alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe also re-evaluates the film in relation to Coppola’s other features, as the product of an established director with a distinctive cinematic signature: ‘Coppolism’. Fundamentally, Ferriss argues that \u003cem\u003eLost in Translation\u003c\/em\u003e is not only a cinema classic, but classic Coppola too.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PTY Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47424921698540,"sku":"9781839024917","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781839024917.jpg?v=1774768284"},{"product_id":"the-cinema-of-sofia-coppola-by-professor-suzanne-ferriss-9781350176621","title":"The Cinema of Sofia Coppola","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cinema of Sofia Coppola\u003c\/i\u003e 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 branding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFerriss also delves into the theme of celebrity, including Coppola’s own director-star persona, arguing that Coppola’s auteur status rests on an original and distinct visual style derived from the filmmaker’s complex engagement with photography and painting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFerriss analyses each of Coppola’s six films, categorising them into two groups: films where fashion commands attention (\u003ci\u003eMarie Antoinette\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Beguiled\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Bling Ring\u003c\/i\u003e) and those where clothing and material goods do not stand out ostentatiously but are essential in establishing characters’ identities and relationships (\u003ci\u003eThe Virgin Suicides\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLost in Translation\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSomewhere\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout, Ferriss draws on approaches from scholarship on fashion, film, visual culture, art history, celebrity, and material culture to capture the complexities of Coppola’s engagement with fashion, culture, and celebrity. \u003ci\u003eThe Cinema of Sofia Coppola\u003c\/i\u003e is beautifully illustrated with colour images from her films, as well as artworks and advertising artefacts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47599236710636,"sku":"9781350176621","price":176.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781350176621-the-cinema-of-sofia-coppola.jpg?v=1777974849"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/professor-suzanne-ferriss.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}