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

Chaplin's War Trilogy: An Evolving Lens in Three Dark Comedies, 1918-1947 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780786474653)

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

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

$39.95
Chaplin's War Trilogy: An Evolving Lens in Three Dark Comedies, 1918-1947 by Gehring, Wes D.

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

$39.95
Format: Paperback
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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 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.



Author: Wes D. Gehring
ISBN-10: 0786474653
ISBN-13: 9780786474653
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Language: English
Published: 09/18/2014
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2015 pg. 979
By Wes D. Gehring
By Wes D. Gehring
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Wes D. Gehring is the Distinguished Professor of Film at Ball State University, and the author of 44 books, keying on biographies of film comedians and comic genres. Their reception has resulted in speaking engagements from the Paris-Sorbonne University to New York's Museum of Modern Art. He has periodically been one of Turner Classic Movies' on-screen scholars for their summer online classes.

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