COMM 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Antonio Gramsci, The Trammps, Black Sheep
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The history of industrialism has always been a continuing struggle against the element of animality in man - antonio gramsci. The machines from the set was based upon a lm projector, which suggested that the movie industry is also industrializing. The dissolve of the sheep into the men streaming out of the subway and by the spatial relationship of people to machines. The music is driving and rhythmic, like the rhythms of the factory. In the opening sequence there is a quick nod to the sprit of resistance(black sheep) Chaplin"s movies are based on exaggerated characters. Fordism- stressed standardization and homogenization led to quick productivity and assembly line mass production produced more pro t. Chaplin felt that this mode of production also tended to dehumanize workers, making their humanity less important than production. Big boss- survey and monitor the work of others and to demand more speed, only speaks through the mechanized media of the loudspeaker and the television screen.
