1st Edition
Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times The Work of Life in the Age of Mechanical Reproducibility
By Carl Peters
Copyright 2022
132 Pages
19 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
132 Pages
19 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
132 Pages
19 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Preface: The Art of Seeing
Chapter I: Work
Chapter II: Life
Chapter III: A Comedian Sees the World
Postscript: Meanwhile
Biography
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).
