Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times

The Work of Life in the Age of Mechanical Reproducibility

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by Carl Peters

Type

Studies

Subject

One Film > Modern Times

Keywords

Charlie Chaplin, social aspects

Publishing date

2024

Publisher

Routledge

Collection

Routledge Focus on Film Studies

1st publishing

2021

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 132 pages
6 x 9 ½ inches (15 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-1-032-18026-7

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Book Presentation:
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.

Illustrating that a detailed filmic reading of Modern Times can be a guide, or an extended case study, for analysing culture, this book will be of interest to students and teachers in film studies, literary studies, and the visual arts.

About the Author:
Carl Peters is a scholar, curator, and author of bpNichol Comics (2002); textual vishyuns: image and text in the work of bill bissett (2011); and Studies in Description, the first annotated study of the entire text of Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons (2016).

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