130 Pages
13 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
130 Pages
13 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
130 Pages
13 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This in-depth study of one of the twenty-first 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.
The book starts by situating The Social Network within the contexts of ‘youth film’, arguing that it challenges and reshapes the boundaries... Read more
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?
Biography
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).
