{"product_id":"the-social-network-9780367753115","title":"The Social Network","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis in-depth study of one of the twenty-first century's most acclaimed films, \u003ci\u003eThe Social Network: Youth Film 2.0 \u003c\/i\u003econsiders the contribution of David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin's film to the understanding of youth' in a contemporary, digital age. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book starts by situating \u003ci\u003eThe Social Network \u003c\/i\u003ewithin the contexts of youth film', arguing that it challenges and reshapes the boundaries of this genre by rethinking the notion of youth' itself in the present century. It goes on to consider in detail the aesthetics at work in the film, arguing for its critical and reflexive use of an accelerated' audio-visual style, in order to capture both the new visual regimes of the personal computer era, and the ethical and intellectual ambiguities of Facebook itself as a creation. Finally, it locates the film within the broader visual styles and fashion codes of a late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century consumer culture that incorporates and commodifies rebellion and di\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction Much Too Young – \u003ci\u003eThe Social Network\u003c\/i\u003e and Twenty-First-Century Youth Film 1 From Harvard to Palo Alto: The Values of Education in Youth Cinema and \u003ci\u003eThe Social Network \u003c\/i\u003e2 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Social Network \u003c\/i\u003eEpilogue The Last Word?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018059284823,"sku":"9780367753115","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367753115.jpg?v=1750775497","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-social-network-9780367753115","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}