L’écriture en creux du paysage de guerre dans le cinéma de Charles Chaplin
Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: Chaplin’s art of comedy never shirked from tragic issues such as totalitarianism and Hitler’s persecution of the Jews in The Great Dictator and earlier, World War I in Shoulder Arms. This article aims at demonstrating how the denunciation of war is made through both a realistic picture of the trenches in Shoulder Arms as well as at the beginning of The Great Dictator. His imaginary representation acts as an indictment and a humanistic painting. Charles Chaplin shows the space of war through a visual form of writing in which the world of dreams gives a realistic picture of World War I through a hollow world depicted thanks to an elliptic writing.
Source: Caliban
DOI: 10.4000/caliban.1023
Author: Françoise Besson
Institutions: Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès, Université de Toulouse
Language: French
Topic: Cinema History and Criticism
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2554780445