Modern Times was Charlie Chaplin's last full-length silent film. The author situates "Modern Times" within the context of Chaplin's life work, exploring its history and influences.
It was casy to use Darwin's theory of the survival of the fittest to argue that the superior Europeans had a duty to rule the less well developed peoples - that , as the British poet Rudyard Kipling wrote , Europeans should “ take up ...
Originally published in 1983 and named one of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times, this bestselling history is now revised and updated and includes a new final chapter.
Like so many musicians indifferent to politics, the enfant terrible of prerevolutionary music sought permission by the ... While, like Lenin, he defended the pre-revolutionary cultural heritage as a legitimate birthright of the working ...
Series is designed to present music in a broad context of socio-political, economic, intellectual and religious life.
The critique of modernist ideology from France's leading radical theorist In this book Jacques Rancière radicalises his critique of modernism and its postmodern appendix.
Modern Times was Charlie Chaplin's last full-length silent film. The author situates 'Modern Times' within the context of Chaplin's life work, exploring its history and influences.
The book presents an overview of twentieth century photography in all its facets, from pure documentary to autonomous art.
Richly illustrated and beautifully designed, Modern Times: The Untold Story of Modernism in Australia reveals how modernism transformed all aspects of Australian culture across five tumultuous decades from 1917 to...
This richly illustrated volume features rare British prints from the Leslie and Johanna Garfield collection dating between 1913 and 1939—a period marked by two world wars, a global pandemic, the Great Depression, and the rise of Fascism ...
This book will be of critical interest to those studying and teaching in the fields of cultural history and theory.
" Now he carries the story forward for another hundred years in "Modern Times: Remembering the 20th Century," a thirty-six-part dance through the 20th century.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.