Madness and Civilization
Monsieur Verdoux and the meaning of Chaplin's cinema
by Tom McCormack
posted Jul 22, 2010
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Charlie Chaplin in his film Monsieur Verdoux
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KEYWORDS
Charlie Chaplin | film criticism | Monsieur Verdoux | Cold War | James Agee | André Bazin | auteurism | HolocaustTHE AUTHOR
Tom McCormack is a critic living in Brooklyn. His writing has appeared in Cinema Scope, Film Comment, Rhizome, The L Magazine, and other publications. He is a regular contributor to Moving Image Source, an editor at Alt Screen, and the film and electronic art editor of Idiom.
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