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Authoritarianism, Industrialization, Modernism, and Their Effects on the…

- - - - -Shows elderly people facing unfair treatment by the capitalist system and by their own families
        -A need to stay modern and keep up with the times
        -The need to steal back his uniform to keep up appearances for family and community
        -Shame for aging and losing a job of a higher station
        -Clases are very clearly delineated
        -Shows how capitalism brings out the worst in people
        -Shows how capitalism and industrialization exploit less able-bodied people
  - - - -Serves as propaganda for New York City as a modern metropolis
        -Shows the unsafe working conditions in construction at the time
        -Shows how industrialization has impacted N.Y.
        -Very formal compositions attempt to beautify the city
        -Personifies the city while removing identity from individuals
  - - - -This short actuality shows factory workers leaving the Lumière factory
        -Presents a falsified reality of factory work
        -Workers went home and changed into their best attire before coming back and being filmed (Varga)
        -Presents factory work as more glamorous than it was
        -Furthers the capitalist false narrative of workers actually being treated well
  - - - -Workers are surveilled while doing their jobs
        -Terrible machines devised to increase productivity with no consideration of the worker
        -The Tramp finds himself treated as mentally unstable after being pushed to the breaking point by the capitalist system
        -Shows how the worker is surveilled and forced to do tasks they don't understand -Communicates the power structure of factory work
- - - - -Soviet propaganda after the Bolshevik Revolution under Stalin
        -Used as a reminder of what communism meant, and what they had to fight against to achieve it
        -Shows the authoritarian nature of the previous regime before the Bolshevik Revolution.
        -Shows by how much the soldiers outweighed the officers and command
        -The power of the people
        -Highlights the ability to rise in numbers and take control of the people
        -However, it does not show the authoritarian nature of communism in Soviet Russia and how damaging this would become
  - - - -Shows “Orientals” as the other
        -Furthers the concept of Orientalism championed by Edward Said
        -Shadowy rebel soldiers are attacking the British-run train
        -Shows communism as the enemy
        -British imperial power is shown as an altruistic force
- - - - -One woman's desire to give her daughter the best
        -Her success comes at a price
        -Capitalism furthers the desire for materialism
        -Mildred is surrounded by selfish people who use her for her money
        -Greed and manipulation
        -Mildred goes against her own morals to get her daughter back
        -Forced to marry a man she doesn't love to get her daughter back
        -That man tries to take her business and run off with her daughter, with whom he had been in a secret relationship with
        -Constant ridicule of the working life and working menial/manual labor jobs
    - - -Lotti furthers the stereotype of the mammy
        -Only black characters in the film are in serving roles
        -Exaggerated vocal performance
        -Butterfly McQueen was not given credit for her role as Lotti
  - - - -Desire to make a life for yourself
        -No control over your own life
        -After the loss of a child, he cannot cope with work
        -Neglect of the family to pursue money
        -The capitalist system almost pushes John to suicide
        -John is expected to be the sole supporter of his wife and child -Wife is expected to do everything around the house -His son saves him from suicide
        -Movie ends shortly after this scene, on what seems like a happy ending, but furthers the concept of a lack of individualism under capitalism
- - - - -Proliferation of the mammy stereotype
        -Blackness as a commodity to exploit
        -Subservience to white people
        -Exaggerated caricature
        -Shows her to be willfully ignorant
        -Struggles with daughter who does not want to be perceived as black
        -She and her daughter are victims of systematic racism
        -It gives more agency to the character in the film than was shown in the media at the time