{"id":1557,"date":"2021-05-19T15:47:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T13:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/19\/overshare-are-there-any-good-films-about-social-media\/"},"modified":"2021-05-19T15:47:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T13:47:39","slug":"overshare-are-there-any-good-films-about-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/19\/overshare-are-there-any-good-films-about-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Overshare: are there any good films about social media?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Mainstream to Profile to Sweat, three films released this summer attempt the rare feat of capturing the experience of being online in a hyper-connected world<\/p>\n

There are several elements of Mainstream, Gia Coppola\u2019s dark satire of YouTube stardom released in theaters this month, that resemble a stick-figure rendering of internet fame. The film, written by Coppola, supposes that a technophobic, shady drifter named Link (Andrew Garfield) morphs, under the guidance of aspiring film-maker Frankie (Maya Hawke) into a messianic, exhibitionist star somewhat of the trolling Jake Paul variety; his avatar, No One Special, appears to aim for the irony-poisoned, frenetic attention spans of Gen Z, but is a thirtysomething whose gameshow specials are filmed on a Hollywood set with a live audience, as opposed to the DIY aesthetic massively popular on the video platform.<\/p>\n

Related: <\/span>Rebels with a cause: how teens on screen grew up and found their voice<\/a> <\/p>\n

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\nFrom Mainstream to Profile to Sweat, three films released this summer attempt the rare feat of capturing the experience of being online in a hyper-connected world
\nThere are several elements of Mainstream, Gia Coppola\u2019s dark satire of YouTube stardom released in theaters this month, that resemble a stick-figure rendering of internet fame. The film, written by Coppola, supposes that a technophobic, shady drifter named Link (Andrew Garfield) morphs, under the guidance of aspiring film-maker Frankie (Maya Hawke) into a messianic, exhibitionist star somewhat of the trolling Jake Paul variety; his avatar, No One Special, appears to aim for the irony-poisoned, frenetic attention spans of Gen Z, but is a thirtysomething whose gameshow specials are filmed on a Hollywood set with a live audience, as opposed to the DIY aesthetic massively popular on the video platform.
\n Related: Rebels with a cause: how teens on screen grew up and found their voice Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Mainstream to Profile to Sweat, three films released this summer attempt the rare feat of capturing the experience of being online in a hyper-connected world There are several elements of Mainstream, Gia Coppola\u2019s dark satire of YouTube stardom released in theaters this month, that resemble a stick-figure rendering of internet fame. The film, written …<\/p>\n

Overshare: are there any good films about social media?<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}