The Social Network:A Study from the Narrative Perspective

摘要

As the most successful social website,Facebook is well received by people all over the world.The Social Network is a film about the establishment of the website and the story between the co-founders.The construction of a film is based on the narrative content,presented by the narrative forms.Therefore,under the framework of narratology,this thesis attempts to analyze the success of the movie by illustrating how the director combines the hearings and the flashback memories skillfully and presents the characters' paradox and complicated inner world through anti-traditional,non-linear and intertextual narrative style.