27 juin 2024
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Clémentine THOLAS, « Morgane Jourdren, Chaplin’s America: Between Dream and Illusion », E-rea, ID : 10.4000/11w9k
When I started reading Morgane Jourdren’s monograph Chaplin’s America: Between Dream and Illusion, I first had reservations regarding her approach about Chaplin’s oeuvre as she studied it from a literary perspective and not as a film historian and because we did not share the same reading of some films, in particular Monsieur Verdoux (1947) which I consider one of Chaplin’s masterpieces. I felt that Morgane Jourdren did not fully grasp the gloom and cynicism of Landru’s case for he was, to m...