1. Chaplins
... will give definition to his rootless existence. In Walter Benjamins essay "The Flaneur" the author suggests that the first literary endeavor of this new species of city dweller was "panorama literature" or "physiologies". In these texts different classes, creeds and breeds of the new and unfamiliar Industrial Age were simplified into differing groups of innocuous caricatures. Benjamin suggests that there were ... and education forces him to constantly view the masses from the outside as an uncontrollable mass of threatening strangers. Chaplins Factory Worker is undoubtedly part of this ...
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