Preface: The Art of Seeing 1 Work 2 Life 3 A Comedian Sees the World Postscript: Meanwhile
This book looks at Charlie Chaplins masterpiece, Modern Times (1936), through the lens of film aesthetics, structure, and post-modern perspective.
This book looks at Charlie Chaplins masterpiece, Modern Times (1936), through the lens of film aesthetics, structure, and post-modern perspective.
The na?ve 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 Chaplins 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 Phillipss 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.
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 Steins
Tender Buttons (2016).US? 2022 Carl Peters
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