Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times

<p>This book looks at Charlie Chaplin’s masterpiece <i>Modern Times</i> (1936) through the lens of film aesthetics structure and post-modern perspective. </p><p>The naïve Tramp character of <i>Modern Times</i> 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 <i>Post-modern Times</i>. Drawing from extensive research and bringing post-modern context to the film through a comparative analysis of Todd Phillips’s <i>Joker </i>(2019) the book introduces how exhilarating a comprehensive study of film can be for engaged viewers. </p><p>Illustrating that a detailed filmic reading of <i>Modern Times</i> 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.</p>