| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
Preface: The art of seeing -- Work -- Life -- A comedian sees the world -- Postscript: Meanwhile |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
"Routledge Focus" -- taken from front cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Carl Peters teaches in the English department at University of the Fraser Valley, Canada. He 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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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 17, 2021) |
| Subject |
Little Tramp (Fictitious character)
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Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977. |
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Modern times (Motion picture)
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Modern times (Motion picture) |
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Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Work in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
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Work in motion pictures.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021035263 |
| ISBN |
042932331X |
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100051952X |
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1000519554 |
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9780429323317 |
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9781000519525 |
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9781000519556 |
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