How Social Media is Changing Movies and Their Place in Society

Published: Aug. 27, 2023, 7:05 a.m.

b'Maia Wyman, or Broey Deschanel as she\\u2019s known on Youtube, joins Offline to talk about her generation of movie critics and influencers\\u2014spoiler alert, they\\u2019re not the same! Her nuanced video essays break down films, analyzing everything from the political themes of Parasite to why Barbie had to spoon-feed feminism to its audience. But for every voice like Maia\\u2019s, there are many others who don\\u2019t leverage the social web so much as indulge it. Guest host Max Fisher talks with Maia about how the internet is changing movies for better or worse, what it means for our culture, and how we see it playing out in this summer\\u2019s big releases.'