Revolutionary Laughter: The Aesthetico-Political Meaning of Benjamin’s Chaplin
This paper discusses the aesthetic and political motivations of the great importance that Walter Benjamin gives to Charlie Chaplin in Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit (1935-1936). First, it proceeds to identify the main paragraphs that Benjamin devoted to Chaplin’s f...
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Firenze University Press
2019-11-01
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| Series: | Aisthesis |
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| Online Access: | https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/10732 |