Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times
Carl Peters, "Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times"
English | ISBN: 0367339838 | 2021 | 132 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 0367339838 | 2021 | 132 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
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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