Sofia Coppola and Generation X (So Far)

Robert C. Sickels is professor of film & media studies at Whitman College and the Alma Meisnest Chair of Humanities.

Chapter 1: Anxious and Effervescent

Chapter 2: "You like me, don't you?" The Virgin Suicides (1999)

Chapter 3: "Does it get easier?" Lost in Translation (2003)

Chapter 4: "This is ridiculous." Marie Antoinette (2006)

Chapter 5: I'm fucking nothing." Somewhere (2010)

Chapter 6: "Girls! Time for your Adderall!" The Bling Ring (2013)

Chapter 7: "This is a nightmare. I can't do this." A Very Murray Christmas (2013)

Chapter 8: "I'm as blunt as I need to be." The Beguiled (2017)

Chapter 9: "You can't go deaf to women's voices. You know that, right?" On the Rocks (2020)

Chapter 10: "You're losing me to a life of my own." Priscilla (2023)

Chapter 11: "Listen to the girl / As she takes on half the world."