1. Chaplins
... of the city live "down below" the thresholds at which visibility begins they are walkers "wandesrmaenner", whose bodies follow the thicks and thins of an urban text." In "Modern Times" Charlie Chaplins character is the quintessential "walker" .His home is the public places of the city .In this sense he ... the economic privilege to stand outside of it looking in. Chaplins character is a proletarian, a man defined by his labour in much the same way as a machine. He is a commodity. His dual role of Flaneur and proletarian are represented in his directorial choice of images and dialogue as ...
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