Spotlight on MODERN TIMES with Racquel J. Gates

Spotlight on MODERN TIMES with Racquel J. Gates

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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Spotlight on MODERN TIMES with Racquel J. Gates
  • Spotlight on MODERN TIMES with Racquel J. Gates

    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.

  • Modern Times

    Directed by Charles Chaplin • 1936 • United States
    Starring Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman

    MODERN TIMES, Charlie Chaplin’s last outing as the Little Tramp, puts the iconic character to work as a giddily inept factory employee who becomes smitten with a gorgeous gamine (Paulette...