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This is a private (from time to time) blog for my cinematic obsessions and scintillating (one-sided) reflections about movies. Feel yourself at home!

20 ianuarie 2014

Un alt fel de superlative 2013: Best (double) Selfie

No runners up and no contenders!

Screenshot from Blue Jasmine (dir. Woody Allen/2013)

What does selfie mean?
„The concept of the selfie dates back at least as far as the first post-invention-of-the-mirror artist who thought to paint a self-portrait. But as a cultural phenomenon, self-shot portraits are rooted in the early days of MySpace, when teens with emo bangs flooded their profiles with headshots taken from just about every conceivable angle. The selfie exploded into the mainstream of pop culture in 2013 — the term, once colloquial slang, is now listed in the Oxford English Dictionary. That shift was due in no small part to celebrities embracing the medium via Instagram and Twitter, partly out of natural human vanity but also likely as a response to the uncontrolled invasion of paparazzi.” (via)