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BETWEEN THE NAVEL AND THE KNEES
Charlie Chaplin represented a vision of laughter, of comedy, that tore away at the veil, a social burka fitted over its explosive and unpredictable composition.A contrast of fast nickelodeons and the slow dimes of higher culture. He enabled a reconnection … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristophanes, Bakhtin, Bergson, Brecht, Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin, David Trotter, Fernand Leger, Film history, Frederic Jameson, Freud, James Agee, Neil Simon, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno, Tom Gunning, Walter Benjamin, William Paul, Woody Allen
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STRANGE AFFINITY
More than half a decade before Chaplin was to ridicule Hitler’s spectacle of charismatic greatness in the Great Dictator, Walter Benjamin already emphasized the strange affinity between the comedian and the politician. Accordingly, Hitler and Chaplin appear as products of … Continue reading
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Tagged A Dog's Life, Ballet mecanique, Benjamin, Beowulf, Cain and Abel, Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin, Fernand Leger, Grendel, John Gardner, Michael Leonard, The Circus, The Great Dictator, Tom Gunning, Walter Benjamin, William Paul
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