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Social Media and Identity Formation in Bo Burnham’s Film, ‘Eighth Grade’

Social Media and Identity Formation in Bo Burnham’s Film, ‘Eighth Grade’

Rather than moralize, critique, or make grandiose statements about "digital natives", writer-director-wunderkind Bo Burnham brilliantly visualizes what it means to live in a world in which social media is omnipresent.

‘Eighth Grade’ and the Act of Disappearing in Plain Sight, Online

‘Eighth Grade’ and the Act of Disappearing in Plain Sight, Online

Bo Burnham's big-hearted, emotional tidal wave of a movie shows how the look-at-me / leave-me-alone contradictions of adolescence, powered by social media, are cranked up to 11.

Sundance 2018: ‘Summer of ‘84’ + ‘Eighth Grade’

Sundance 2018: ‘Summer of ‘84’ + ‘Eighth Grade’

Hell is definitely for children and these two films have the proof!