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Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times: The Work of Life in the Age of Mechanical Reproducibility

Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times: The Work of Life in the Age of Mechanical Reproducibility

Peters, Carl

Hardcover

Film & Video ArtFilm StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0367339838
ISBN13: 9780367339838
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 26 2021
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

This book looks at Charlie Chaplin's masterpiece, Modern Times (1936), through the lens of film aesthetics, structure, and post-modern perspective.

The naïve Tramp character of Modern Times is often seen as the embodiment of a revolutionary reaction to his age. However, this study of the film shows that it is not only difficult but also impossible to accept the long-established critical reception of Chaplin's film and its characters in our own Post-modern Times. Drawing from extensive research and bringing post-modern context to the film through a comparative analysis of Todd Phillips's Joker (2019), the book introduces how exhilarating a comprehensive study of film can be for engaged viewers.

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