Modern Times

Charlie Chaplin · 1936 CE · Film · Modern / American · Modernist

A factory hand tightening bolts on a line that keeps speeding up is fed through an automatic lunch machine and then through the machinery itself. Out of work, in and out of jail, he takes up with an orphaned girl and they try one job after another. The machine age answered with a shrug.

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Lineage

• responds to ↑ Metropolis
  Fritz Lang · 1927 CE · Film
• continues ↑ City Lights
  Charlie Chaplin · 1931 CE · Film
• ↓ Playtime
  Jacques Tati · 1967 CE · Film — influenced by this

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• Joseph Andrews
  Henry Fielding · 1742 CE · Novel

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• The Canterbury Tales
  Chaucer · c. 1400 CE · Poem

  61% · 12 shared
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  Ben Jonson · 1614 CE · Play

  61% · 12 shared
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• Ferdydurke
  Witold Gombrowicz · 1937 CE · Novel

  60% · 12 shared
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• Playtime
  Jacques Tati · 1967 CE · Film

  59% · 13 shared
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• The Innocents Abroad
  Mark Twain · 1869 CE · Narrative Non-fiction

  59% · 12 shared
  ComedySatireClass & InequalityIndividual vs SocietyEverymanTricksterEpisodicThe Journeyvs SocietyComicSatiricalModern / American