Chaplin s War Trilogy
- Author : Wes D. Gehring
- Publisher : McFarland
- File Size : 51,5 Mb
- Release : 04 September 2014
- ISBN : 9780786474653
- Page : 241 pages
Summary: Chaplin s War Trilogy PDF is a Fantastic Performing Arts book by Wes D. Gehring. It was published by McFarland on 04 September 2014. This Book has 241 pages and Available to download in PDF, EPUB and Kindle Format. Read detail book and summary below and click download button to get book file and read directly from your devices.
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.