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Tramps and nomadsFigures of youth in flight in Charlie Chaplin's Modern TimesHANS SKOTT-MYHRE is an interdisciplinary cultural theorist whose primary research area is the development of models of child and youth work that promote new political possibilities for youth-adult collaboration that challenge global capitalist empire. His research includes the investigation of new forms of community, identity, body practices, and creative expression that hold potential for resistance or flight for youth and adults working towards common political purposes. He holds a Ph.D. in Work Community and Family Education from the University of Minnesota and is completing a second doctorate in Cultural Studies with a focus on revolutionary subjectivity. Address: Department of Child and Youth Studies, Brock University, 500 Glenridge, St Catharines, ON L2S 3A1, Canada. [email: hskottmy{at}brocku.ca]
JAN C. FRIJTERS is an educational psychologist whose primary research area is the study of reading, reading disability and the development of motivation for reading throughout childhood. He has interests in the application of statistical models to change over time, especially for techniques that help sort out how developmental processes unfold within specific learning contexts. Much of this work is carried out at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, where he is investigating the working relationship between remedial teacher and student, attributions of success and failure at reading, and motivation for specific academic tasks. Address: Department of Child and Youth Studies, Brock University, 500 Glenridge, St Catharines, ON L2S 3A1, Canada. [email: jan.frijters{at}brocku.ca] The film Modern Times was singular in its historical moment as a work that considered youth as a creative and social force in itself. Indeed, while there are many ways to read the major themes in a film such as Modern Times, this article, following Gilles Deleuze and F�lix Guattari, engages Charlie Chaplin's film as a vehicle for exploring a certain kind of becoming-youth as a question of force. The kind of force that is explored here is the production of youth as a specific kind of radical social subjectivity; that is to say, as a subjectivity comprising multiple collisions, contestations and struggles between sets of proscribed social roles. The article investigates how the film engages the question of youth-adult identity as a social binary that can be collapsed into a relation that flees the social containment of both youth and adult.
Key Words: social construction • youth identity • war machine • cinema • resistance • lines of flight
Young, Vol. 15, No. 2,
115-128 (2007) |
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