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Chaplin's War Trilogy: An Evolving Lens in Three Dark Comedies, 1918-1947

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Chaplin's War Trilogy: An Evolving Lens in Three Dark Comedies, 1918-1947 - Gehring, Wes D
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"The book examines 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"--

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Chaplin's War Trilogy: An Evolving Lens in Three Dark Comedies, 1918-1947 2014, McFarland & Company, Jefferson

ISBN-13: 9780786474653

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