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‘Jawline’ Review: When The Dream of Social Media Stardom Turns Nightmarish

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Christopher Campbell
Aug 25, 2019
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Liza Mandelup’s excellent feature debut, Jawline, is a sharp piece of sociological inquiry that probes a strange corner of the Gen-Z world: vlogging, or video blogging, which has become all the rage in the era of YouTube, Vine, and other video-based social media. But vlogging is not just an extracurricular: it’s a subculture; it’s an outlet; it’s a care…

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