Subsections
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- An exploration of Chaplin's aesthetic universe that makes a critical mind rethink the
intricacies of human experience.
- Issues such as poverty, unemployment, optimism and pessimism, the rag-to-riches
story, capitalism and its discontents, political history, the contemporaneity of Chaplin
- A unique medium: Commingling Black humour with non-verbal performance
- Chaplin's Oeuvre: Representative films:- The Kid (1921), The Gold Rush (1925),
City Lights (1931), Modern Times (1936), The Great Dictator (1940), Limelight
(1952), A King in New York (1957)
- Select Chaplinesque Criticism: Wes D Gehring's Chaplin's War trilogy, Kristen
Thompson's Chaplin's Romantic Comedy, Tom Gunning's Chaplin and the American
Culture, David Robinson's Chaplin's Life and Art, Neil Hurley's The Social
Philosophy of Chaplin, Slavoj Zizek's psychoanalytic treatment of Chaplin's movies,
to name a few.
- Charles Chaplin, My Autobiography, Penguin Classics, London, 1964.
- Constance B. K., Chaplin's Impure Comedy: The Art of Survival, Film Quarterly, 1992.
- David Robinson, Chaplin: His Life and Art. London, Paladin, 1986.
- Huff Theodore, Charlie Chaplin, Abelard-Schuman, New York, 1951.
- Neil Hurley, The Social Philosophy of Charlie Chaplin. An Irish Quarterly Review, 1960.
- Northrop Frye, The Great Charlie, Canadian Forum, 1941.
- Richard Carr., Charlie Chaplin: A Political Biography from Victorian Britain to Modern America, Routledge, London, 2017
- Slavoj Zizek, Enjoy Your Symptom: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out, Routledge, New York, 1992.
- Wes D. Gehring, Chaplin's War Trilogy: An Evolving Lens in Three Dark Comedies, 1918-1947. McFarland & Co, Jefferson, 2014.