Submitted by JOSIANE SANTOS DE OLIVEIRA (josianeso) on 2018-08-02T13:43:00Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Fernando Beretta Del Corona_.pdf: 4050624 bytes, checksum: 799d20c962674faef9e36c063091e725 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-02T13:43:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fernando Beretta Del Corona_.pdf: 4050624 bytes, checksum: 799d20c962674faef9e36c063091e725 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-03-28 / Nenhuma / Esta pesquisa buscou compreender como se dá a construção do quadro cinematográfico dentro da obra da cineasta norte-americana Sofia Coppola a partir da análise de cinco de seus filmes: As virgens suicidas (1999), Encontros e desencontros (2003), Maria Antonieta (2006), Um lugar qualquer (2010) e Bling Ring: a gangue de Hollywood (2013). Para esse fim, se produziu um percurso histórico do cinema moderno na Europa e nos Estados Unidos no século XX, assim como do cinema independente norte-americano, contextualizando a obra da diretora dentro do movimento indie dos anos 1990. A fundamentação teórica estruturou-se a partir de conceitos e de ideias de Gilles Deleuze, Henri Bergson e André Bazin sobre a imagem. O processo da análise se baseou na metodologia da cartografia e dissecação audiovisual, de Deleuze, Félix Guattari e Walter Benjamin, trabalhando com as imagens nos filmes de Coppola, buscando entender como elas interagem entre si e o sentido que exprimem por meio dos elementos dentro do quadro. Através da análise se compreendeu como Coppola utiliza elementos como o corpo feminino, o olhar dos personagens, a vagueação e molduras secundárias para refletir sobre a sociedade contemporânea onde essas imagens são produzidas. / This research tried to understand how the construction of the cinematic frame works within the movies of north-American director Sofia Coppola, through the analysis of five of her films: The virgin suicides (1999), Lost in translation (2003), Marie Antoinette (2006), Somewhere (2010) and The Bling Ring (2013). To this end, the history of modern cinema in Europe and the United States in the 20th century was researched, as well as the history of independent cinema in America, contextualizing the director’s work within the indie movement of the 1990s. Theoretical foundation was based on concepts and ideas developed by authors Gilles Deleuze, Henri Bergson and André Bazin about images. The analysis process was based on the cartography and audiovisual dissection methodologies, by Deleuze, Félix Guattari and Walter Benjamin, working the images in Coppola’s movies, trying to understand how the interact with themselves and the meaning the express through the elements in the frame. Through the analysis it was understood how Coppola utilizes elements such as the feminine body, the character’s gaze, wanderings and secondary framing to reflect on the contemporary society where these images are produced.

Esta dissertação objetiva analisar a obra audiovisual Encontros e desencontros, dirigida pela cineasta norte-americana Sofia Coppola, filmada integralmente no Japão (nas cidades de Tóquio e Quioto), e lançada comercialmente no ano de 2003. A análise pretende relacionar a representação ficcional da cidade por uma diretora estrangeira, as imagens dos espaços urbanos de Tóquio (resultado das medidas de ocidentalização e modernização praticadas no país, a partir da era Meiji) mostrados através da película e sua narrativa. As imagens da capital japonesa criadas pela realizadora vagueiam através do contraste entre o moderno e o tradicional oferecidos pela cultura japonesa, além de apresentar situações e locais de cartão-postal visitados por turistas e outros frequentados por nativos. E, ao contrário de outras obras cinematográficas, as sequências de fotogramas do filme em questão, que mostram as ruas, avenidas, construções arquitetônicas e espaços internos, acabam exercendo papel ativo dentro da narrativa fílmica. / Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 2010. This dissertation aims to analyze the audiovisual work Lost in translation, directed by American film maker Sofia Coppola, shot integrally in Japan (in Tokyo and Kyoto), and commercially released in 2003. The analysis intends to relate the fictional representation of the city depicted by a foreign director, the images of Tokyos urban spaces (resulted from measures of Westernization and modernization practiced in the country, since Meiji era) shown through the film and its narrative. The images of the Japanese capital created by the film maker wander through the contrast between modern and traditional offered by Japanese culture, besides presenting situations and post card sites visited by tourists and others frequented by natives. Unlike other films, the sequences of frames of the analyzed movie, which shows the streets, avenues, architectural constructions and interiors spaces exert an active role in the film narrative.

Esta dissertação objetiva analisar a obra audiovisual Encontros e desencontros, dirigida pela cineasta norte-americana Sofia Coppola, filmada integralmente no Japão (nas cidades de Tóquio e Quioto), e lançada comercialmente no ano de 2003. A análise pretende relacionar a representação ficcional da cidade por uma diretora estrangeira, as imagens dos espaços urbanos de Tóquio (resultado das medidas de ocidentalização e modernização praticadas no país, a partir da era Meiji) mostrados através da película e sua narrativa. As imagens da capital japonesa criadas pela realizadora vagueiam através do contraste entre o moderno e o tradicional oferecidos pela cultura japonesa, além de apresentar situações e locais de cartão-postal visitados por turistas e outros frequentados por nativos. E, ao contrário de outras obras cinematográficas, as sequências de fotogramas do filme em questão, que mostram as ruas, avenidas, construções arquitetônicas e espaços internos, acabam exercendo papel ativo dentro da narrativa fílmica. / Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 2010. This dissertation aims to analyze the audiovisual work Lost in translation, directed by American film maker Sofia Coppola, shot integrally in Japan (in Tokyo and Kyoto), and commercially released in 2003. The analysis intends to relate the fictional representation of the city depicted by a foreign director, the images of Tokyos urban spaces (resulted from measures of Westernization and modernization practiced in the country, since Meiji era) shown through the film and its narrative. The images of the Japanese capital created by the film maker wander through the contrast between modern and traditional offered by Japanese culture, besides presenting situations and post card sites visited by tourists and others frequented by natives. Unlike other films, the sequences of frames of the analyzed movie, which shows the streets, avenues, architectural constructions and interiors spaces exert an active role in the film narrative.

This thesis examines the influence of Romanticism on a selection of seven films from four contemporary American filmmakers: Sofia Coppola, Wes Anderson, Charlie Kaufman, and Spike Jonze. The research questions are as follows: How do particular Romantic ideas, either canonical ones or those located on the more critical fringes of Romanticism, relate to the work of the filmmakers I consider? What Romantic features do these films regularly exhibit, both aesthetically and in terms of narrative? How do these features inform their overall point of view? Finally, how do such Romantic ideas and aesthetics relate to the current cultural milieu in which the films were created? There are many familiar and more obscure Romantic strains running through the films. These include a preoccupation with personal history and memory; an undercurrent of deeply felt emotion and reliance upon mood and tone to convey it; a foregrounding of the creative process and the imagination; and an ambivalent relationship to both the natural world and civilised society. In terms of aesthetics, the films in question depend on qualities of the beautiful, picturesque, and sublime to represent the complex emotional states of their characters and to elicit emotional responses in their audiences. Above all, these films represent a preoccupation with subjectivity and self-consciousness: specifically, the coming to personal self-consciousness that creates a rift between the individual subject and a greater sense of society. By utilising the work of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Romantic authors and philosophers such as Friedrich Schlegel, William Wordsworth, Henry David Thoreau, John Keats and others, combined with twentieth- and twenty-first century readings of these works via literary and cultural theorists and critics such as Harold Bloom, M.H. Abrams, Leo Marx and Anne Mellor, I emphasise the historical trajectory of general Romantic concepts. Taking established cinematic theories (“quirky” cinema, “smart” film, the “new sincerity”) as a point of entry, I explore the underlying stylistic and narrative connections between the films I discuss. I argue these films share a fundamentally Romantic form and vision specific to their own historical and cultural environment.

Submitted by Chaylane Marques (chaylane.marques@ufpe.br) on 2015-03-04T18:42:51Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Dissertaçao André Antônio Barbosa Nostalgia e melancolia nos cinemas de Philippe Garrel e Sofia Coppola.pdf: 1890539 bytes, checksum: 1ed20ec06df3864c87bd0d515e78de46 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-04T18:42:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Dissertaçao André Antônio Barbosa Nostalgia e melancolia nos cinemas de Philippe Garrel e Sofia Coppola.pdf: 1890539 bytes, checksum: 1ed20ec06df3864c87bd0d515e78de46 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-02-22 / FACEPE / Este trabalho pretende estudar as práticas artísticas distintas de dois cineastas contemporâneos – Philippe Garrel e Sofia Coppola – enxergando-as, porém, integradas a uma mesma e longa tradição de artistas: aquela que, desde os primórdios do romantismo europeu, tem colocado a melancolia como a força-motriz de seus trabalhos. Nestes, a melancolia frequentemente engendra, como uma espécie de correlato natural, o sentimento de nostalgia. Mas ao contrário do que o discurso crítico habitualmente propõe, a nostalgia dessas obras não é em si conservadora, simplista ou ingênua; não é uma cura paliativa, pacificadora ou solução fácil para a angústia melancólica que surge com a modernidade. A nostalgia aí é, antes, uma forma crítica de fugir de uma atualidade linear insípida ou sensório-motora – de escapar do otimismo do progresso – e ir buscar algo de mais profundo e mais complexo em lençóis e circuitos distantes do passado: a possibilidade de, nos termos de Walter Benjamin, uma experiência verdadeira (Erfahrung). O corpus principal da pesquisa consiste, por um lado, em dois longas-metragens de Garrel que, nostalgicamente, evocam o fim dos anos 60: Sauvage innocence (2001) e Les amants réguliers (2005). No primeiro, Garrel interessa-se por capturar a aura distante e fantasmagórica daquela época, enquanto que no segundo ele a enxerga não como um ponto mensurável num correr mecânico do tempo, mas como uma, nos termos de Deleuze, idade do mundo. Por outro lado, em Maria Antonieta (2006), Coppola não apenas justapõe as idades mas faz com que elas coexistam e se relacionem mais diretamente, através de um anacronismo ao mesmo tempo dissonante e nostálgico que conecta o presente, os anos 80, o século XVIII, um vago e edênico passado ainda mais anterior e a frágil esperança de um caminho futuro. O quadro fundamental de referências teóricas das análises compôs-se, por um lado, pelo pensamento de Benjamin, sobretudo pelo modo como ele relaciona distância temporal, experiência e arte; por outro lado, pelos sistemas bergson-deleuzianos de se pensar, por meio de distinções de natureza e não apenas de grau, o tempo e o movimento, o espírito e a matéria; e, por fim, pela ideia de Jacques Racière de todo um novo regime – e não apenas uma mera mudança de “estilo” ou de “escola” artística – que surge com a modernidade estética e cujas formas de funcionamento ainda determinam as operações e estratégias cinematográficas aqui observadas.

The historic portrayal of the teenage girl in cinema as a mythical, sexual, hyper feminine and contemporary creature makes way for a specific but fairly common trope. Namely a trope where the teenage girl is used to elicit nostalgia and romance for the male protagonist, specifically because of her trauma and pain. The connection between the youth, femininity, pain and her status as contemporary is what makes the teenage girl an especially nostalgic object. Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides is a film that perfectly highlights and exaggerates this trope. By analyzing this film as well as comparing it to earlier examples, this essay will problematize this portrayal and locate its roots. This essay will analyze these examples and compare them to the general portrayal of the teenage girl in cinema during the twentieth century. By looking at The Virgin Suicides through the theory of the male gaze and the female spectacle, Coppola’s highlighting of this trope becomes clear. This essay concludes that it is unclear if Coppola subverts or simply leans into this trope, but it becomes evident that it is a trope built on the fact that pain and deadness is the height of perfect femininity. Perfect femininity in turn can only be achieved during adolescence, and therefore, the trauma of female adolescence becomes nostalgic.

Plusieurs films américains des années 2000 (Mulholland Drive et INLAND EMPIRE de David Lynch, The Virgin Suicides de Sofia Coppola, Memento de Christopher Nolan, The Pledge de Sean Penn, Broken Flowers de Jim Jarmusch et Zodiac de David Fincher) opèrent une remise en question de la fonction, du fonctionnement et de la représentation des indices sur lesquels s’appuient tant la littérature que le cinéma policiers. Ces films, qui reprennent certains codes du genre sans être tous à proprement parler des « films policiers », ont pour point commun de mettre en scène une enquête qui n’aboutit pas et qui se retourne contre l’enquêteur jusqu’à ébranler son identité. Ils font ainsi écho aux récits de détection dits métaphysiques (The Crying of Lot 49 de Thomas Pynchon, City of Glass de Paul Auster...) : l’indice, loin de permettre la clôture du récit, devient le moyen de son ouverture. À sa juste interprétation succède le foisonnement des lectures et des histoires possibles. Autrefois transparent, il se fait opaque ; de fluide, sa circulation devient accidentée – ce à quoi correspondent de nouvelles manières de le filmer. Les codes du genre policier visant à marquer l’indice tout en favorisant sa lisibilité et l’identification avec l’enquêteur (insert en gros plan, raccord-regard, faible profondeur de champ…) sont détournés selon diverses stratégies : inversion, exagération, etc. Celles-ci ont pour effet de déjouer les attentes des spectateurs et de les rendre inquiets en rétablissant l’incertitude fondamentale de la littérature policière, que le cinéma policier tend à minorer, tout en la mettant au service de projets esthétiques par ailleurs très différents les uns des autres. / A few American films released between 2000 and 2007 (David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive and INLAND EMPIRE, Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides, Christopher Nolan’s Memento, Sean Penn’s The Pledge, Jim Jarmusch’s Broken Flowers and David Fincher’s Zodiac) question the function, inner workings and representation of the clues on which detective fiction and film rely. These movies, which take up certain tropes of the genre without necessarily being detective films per se, all revolve around an investigation which is left incomplete and eventually turns against the investigator, to the point of shattering his or her sense of identity. They thus follow in the footsteps of metaphysical detective fiction (novels such as Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 and Paul Auster’s City of Glass), in that the clue, instead of bringing about the closure of the narrative, becomes the instrument of its open-endedness. Its one correct interpretation is replaced by a proliferation of possible readings and stories. Once transparent, it turns opaque; once fluid, its circulation becomes problematic – which leads to new ways of filming it. The codes that detective films use to point out the clue, increase its legibility and foster identification with the investigator (close-up insert, eyeline match, shallow focus…) are subverted through a number of strategies such as inversion and exaggeration. These aim to deceive the spectator’s expectations and to unsettle him or her by reinstating the fundamental uncertainty of detective fiction, which detective films normally tend to repress, and which is here incorporated into aesthetic projects that otherwise differ widely.

Depictions of girlhood and young women in the media reflect prevailing power structures and norms. In order to understand and challenge these structures, it is important to underscore how they are produced on film. As Coppola's works tend to put the young woman and her experiences in focus, the exploration of how women are represented in her work as a female filmmaker can illuminate how she both adapts to and opposes patriarchal structures. By taking factors such as the intersectional aspects of gender, class and sexuality into consideration, a more nuanced interpretation of complex societal norms and power structures concerning young femininity can be identified.  This thesis examines the representation of young women in Coppolas three first films; The Virgin Suicides (1999), Lost in Translation (2003), and Marie Antoinette (2006). By using a multimodal critical discourse analysis focusing on the semiotic concepts of denotation and connotation, as well as applying an intersectional theoretical framework, the study finds similarities in the representation of young female characters in Coppola's three works. Based on the intersectional gender perspective, common depictions of women's gender, class and sexuality are made visible. The representation of the characters both challenges and reinforces patriarchal norms and social structures. Common to all young female characters is a dissatisfaction with the situations that they find themselves in due to a patriarchal social structure. Trapped by class affiliation, gender normative structures and sexual expectations, Coppola’s young women seek liberation from patriarchal structures, but despite their attempts they never fully succeed.