The Social Network: Youth Film 2.0

ISBN-13: 9780367753108 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 120 str.

Neil Archer

Opis

This in-depth study of one of the 21^st century’s most acclaimed films, The Social Network: Youth Film 2.0, considers the contribution of David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin’s film to the understanding of ‘youth’ in a contemporary, digital age.

Spis treści

Introduction Much Too Young – The Social Network and Twenty-First-Century Youth Film  1 From Harvard to Palo Alto: The Values of Education in Youth Cinema and The Social Network  2 Move Fast and Break Things: Ambivalences of Speed and Hacker Aesthetics  3 ‘I’m CEO, Bitch’: The Conundrum of Capital  4 You Don’t Get to Two Billion Friends Without Making a Few More Enemies: Critical Legacies of The Social Network  Epilogue The Last Word?

O autorze

Neil Archer is Senior Lecturer in Film at Keele University, UK. He is the author of seven previous books, including Cinema and Brexit: The Politics of Popular English Film (2021) and Twenty-First-Century Hollywood: Rebooting the System (2019).