Chaplin's War Trilogy: An Evolving Lens in Three Dark Comedies, 1918-1947 - Softcover

Gehring, Wes D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786474653 ISBN 13: 9780786474653

Verlag: McFarland & Co Inc, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

The book examines Charlie Chaplin's evolving perspective on dark comedy in his three war films, Shoulder Arms (1918), The Great Dictator (1940), and Monsieur Verdoux (1947). In the first he uses the genre in a groundbreaking manner but yet for a pro-war cause. In Dictator dark comedy is applied in an antiwar way. In Monsieur Verdoux Chaplin embraces the genre as an individual in defense against a society out to destroy him. All three are pivotal films in the development of the genre in film, with the latter two movies being very controversial for their time.

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Wes D. Gehring is a distinguished professor of film at Ball State University and associate media editor for USA Today magazine, for which he also writes the column "Reel World." He is the author of 40 film books, including biographies of James Dean, Carole Lombard, Steve McQueen, Robert Wise, Red Skelton and Charlie Chaplin.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: McFarland & Co Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0786474653
• ISBN 13: 9780786474653
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
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