Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times: The Work of Life in the Age of Mechanical Reproducibility
- ISBN-10
- 1032180269
- ISBN-13
- 9781032180267
- Category
- Modern times (Motion picture)
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-10
- Author
- Carl Lynden Peters
Description
"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 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 comparative analysis of Todd Phillips's Joker (2019), the book introduces how exhilarating a comprehensive study of film can be for engaged viewers. Illustrating that a detailed filmic reading of Modern Times can be a guide, or an extended case study, for analyzing culture, this book it will be of interest to students and teachers in film studies, literary studies and the visual arts"--
