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Spotlight on MODERN TIMES with Racquel J. Gates
Criterion Originals • 6m 21s
In the following introduction recorded in 2022, film scholar Racquel J. Gates unpacks how Charlie Chaplin’s 1936 masterpiece explores anxieties around technology and bids farewell to the silent era.
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