Chaplin's America

Between Dream and Illusion

Morgane Jourdren - Collection Univers anglophones

134 pages, parution le 02/02/2023

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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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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Presses Universitaires de Rennes (PUR)
Auteur(s)	Morgane Jourdren
Collection	Univers anglophones
Parution	02/02/2023
Nb. de pages	134
Format	15,5 x 24
Couverture	Broché
Poids	250g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9782753587090
ISBN13	978-2-7535-8709-0