Chaplin's America : between dream and illusion
Undoubtedly, there is a subversive side to Chaplin s work. Some scenes are apt to be considered as signs of Chaplin s intention to ridicule mainstream American society and debunk the myth of American exceptionalism. However, historical and political approaches do not really account for the complexit...
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| フォーマット: | Thèse numérique |
| 言語: | Anglais |
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Rennes :
Presses universitaires de Rennes
2025.
Marseille : OpenEdition |
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| オンライン･アクセス: | https://books.openedition.org/pur/276116 Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM ; Accès complet au document dans sa version HTML. Pas d'accès aux autres formats (PDF, Epub). |
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| Edition sous un autre format: | • Chaplin's America, between dream and illusion, Morgane Jourdren, 2023, Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 1 volume (134 pages), Univers anglophones, 978-2-7535-8709-0 |
| 要約: | Undoubtedly, there is a subversive side to Chaplin s work. Some scenes are apt to be considered as signs of Chaplin s intention to ridicule mainstream American society and debunk the myth of American exceptionalism. However, historical and political approaches do not really account for the complexity and the depth of Chaplin s work. Ironically enough, Chaplin s films may well be not so much about the American Dream as about a dream of another kind, less tangible and more ethereal. Far beyond the socio-economic or comic aspects it is traditionally associated with, there emerges from Chaplin s work a more philosophical and metaphysical dimension, a genuine Weltanschauung. God, if He has ever existed, is at best an absentee Landlord and yet, in the midst of universal chaos, there still arises a dream of that remnant of Terra Incognita within all of us, which takes on the colors of a prelapsarian world free from the contradictions of existence here below |
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| 記述事項: | OpenEdition Books (freemium) |
| 書誌: | Bibliographie pages 127-129. Notes bibliographiques en bas de page. Filmographie pages 123-125 |
| ISBN: | 9791041306046 |
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