MPC 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Industrial Revolution, Bourgeoisie, W. M. Keck Observatory
21 Apr 2020
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Film comedy: cinema is well suited to accomplish this conversion (everything we see in the movies is. Charlie chaplin and the birth of cinema mechanical movement) Chaplin is very creative and he wanted to create depth, expressiveness and layers of meaning in his films. Chaplin: chaplin directed his own movies, acted and sang in his own movies. Chaplin"s performance is kind of formalistic cause it was creative. Modern times: chaplin uses physical comedy (dehumanizing human being to machines) to criticize modern industrial, capitalist society, with films like this chaplin helped to develop narrative film, becoming one of the first great director in hollywood history. Chaplin criticized the capitalist system which creates great income inequality (concentrating most of the world"s wealth in the hands of the few). He critiqued the materialist values of the system, by showing the emptiness of money and possessions, through a critique of the upper classes and their lifestyle.
