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This 3 page paper discusses the similarities and differences in the films “Modern Times” by Charlie Chaplin and “Rear Window” by Alfred Hitchcock. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Modern Times and Rear Window, with regard to surveillance being a management function. In Chaplins classic silent, we first see him as he works at a hopeless job on an
assembly line (Dirks, 2008). The job is so tedious and dreadful that he literally loses his mind and has to be hospitalized (Dirks, 2008). In one scene, the president of
the Electro Steel Corp., a "Big Brother" type, keeps an eye on his workers via a "two-way TV screen with on-line audio and video transmission ... where he can
view all parts of the plant operation" (Dirks, 2008). He orders one of the production lines to speed up (Dirks, 2008). As a function of ones job, surveillance is
both positive and negative. The positive is shown here when the boss recognizes that the line needs to speed up to meet the requirements, but its also a negative, because,
as in 1984, the workers know theyre being watched. Even when he goes to the bathroom and tries to grab a cigarette hes watched, reprimanded and told to get back
to work (Dirks, 2008). The constant harassment and the repetitive nature of the work (hes a "nut-tightener") lead him to a nervous breakdown (Dirks, 2008). There is almost nothing positive
about the surveillance that Chaplin describes here; it consists solely of a powerful executive spying on his workers to make sure they are working as hard as they possibly can.
In Rear Window, its the protagonist who is doing the spying, so we tend to be on his side. In that film, his surveillance helps solve a murder, although
we feel somewhat uncomfortable watching him spy on his neighbors. There is something inherently unpleasant about it when people dont know they are being watched, but we forgive Jeffries because
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