Chaplin's War Trilogy: An Evolving Lens in Three Dark Comedies, 1918-1947 by Wes D. Gehring

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

Wes D. Gehring

232 pages paperback

2 editions

nonfiction art history medium-paced
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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 p...

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