Chaplin's War Trilogy by Wes D. Gehring
Chaplin's War Trilogy

Wes D. Gehring

Chaplin's War Trilogy

Wes D. Gehring

241 pages digital 2014

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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