HIST-1107EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: The Waste Land, Sigmund Freud, Bildungsroman
6 Dec 2020
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Film reflects on the prevalence of an assembly line in a manufacture. Production process is broken down into small unskilled tasks and every semi-skilled worker carries out the same repetitive task again and again. Brings out how stupefying this kind of work is. Eaten up by the machine once machine spits him out again he appears to have fully internalized the mechanistic logic of industrial manufacture process. He even treats his co-workers as fellow machines. Modernist cinema also reflected on issues of modern life on the machine age/on new forms and modes of work: bloomsbury and virginia woolf. Most iconic group of modernist artists and writers. 1905 started to meet at london bloomsbury home; house of the two sisters vanessa. Bell and virginia woolf shared ideas, supported each other. Group of artists and intellectuals, located in bloomsbury, london; most members had known each other at cambridge.
