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Killing Time: Charlie Chaplin and the Comic Passion of Monsieur Verdoux

2006; Edinburgh University Press; Volume: 2; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3366/e2041102209000276

2041-1022

Justus Nieland,

Theater, Performance, and Music History

Justus Nieland (Michigan State University) offers a reading of the domestication and death of Chaplin's silent persona in his 1947 sound comedy, “Monsieur Verdoux”, and its consequent refashioning of comic feeling. In the film, the Tramp, modernity's most public person, is killed by satire, polished smooth and supplanted by an inhuman character - both a dandy and a serial killer of women. Nieland offers a reading of the transition between the silent, universal Tramp and noisy and particular Verdoux.