Chaplin's America
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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| description | 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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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1727342026-02-25T19:55:39Z Chaplin's America Jourdren, Morgane Cinema USA American society thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinema 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. 2026-02-25T19:55:38Z 2026-02-25T19:55:38Z 2023 book 3098-4297 9791041306046 9782753587090 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/172734 eng Univers anglophones image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.7switch.com/fr/ebook/9791041306046/from/openedition https://books.openedition.org/pur/276116 Presses universitaires de Rennes 10.4000/14n8b 10.4000/14n8b 39788d67-70b5-4e83-ba77-a5692a861af6 9791041306046 9782753587090 136 Rennes open access |
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