Revolutionary laughter: The aestheticopolitical meaning of Benjamin’s Chaplin

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Ibarlucía, Ricardo
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2019
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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 films in the different versions of his famous essay. Then it examines Chaplin’s reception in Weimar Germany both in the field of avant-garde art and that of press criticism, highlighting the philosophical, ethico-political and psychological arguments exchanged in a wide and intensive debate on the human dimension of the Tramp character. By focusing on Sigried Kracauaer’s and Rudolf Arnheim’s chronicles, it seeks to illustrate two approaches that are contemporaries to Benjamin’s Rückblick auf Chaplin (1929), a brief review based on an essay written by the French surrealist poet Philippe Soupault. Lastly, it analyzes some notes on Charlot’s gestuality discarded from this famous essay and a fragment in which, six years before The Great Dictator (1940), Benjamin compares Chaplin to Hitler.
Fil: Ibarlucía, Ricardo. Universidad Nacional de San Martín; Argentina. Centro de Investigaciones Filosoficas. Instituto de Filosofia "ezequiel de Olaso". - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Oficina de Coordinacion Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Filosofia "ezequiel de Olaso".; Argentina
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CHAPLIN’S RECEPTION IN WEIMAR CULTURE
FILM ART
GERMAN AVANT-GARDE
HITLER
HUMOR
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title Revolutionary laughter: The aestheticopolitical meaning of Benjamin’s Chaplin
spellingShingle Revolutionary laughter: The aestheticopolitical meaning of Benjamin’s Chaplin
Ibarlucía, Ricardo
CHAPLIN’S RECEPTION IN WEIMAR CULTURE
FILM ART
GERMAN AVANT-GARDE
HITLER
HUMOR
title_short Revolutionary laughter: The aestheticopolitical meaning of Benjamin’s Chaplin
title_full Revolutionary laughter: The aestheticopolitical meaning of Benjamin’s Chaplin
title_fullStr Revolutionary laughter: The aestheticopolitical meaning of Benjamin’s Chaplin
title_full_unstemmed Revolutionary laughter: The aestheticopolitical meaning of Benjamin’s Chaplin
title_sort Revolutionary laughter: The aestheticopolitical meaning of Benjamin’s Chaplin
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Ibarlucía, Ricardo
author Ibarlucía, Ricardo
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv CHAPLIN’S RECEPTION IN WEIMAR CULTURE
FILM ART
GERMAN AVANT-GARDE
HITLER
HUMOR
topic CHAPLIN’S RECEPTION IN WEIMAR CULTURE
FILM ART
GERMAN AVANT-GARDE
HITLER
HUMOR
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dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv 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 films in the different versions of his famous essay. Then it examines Chaplin’s reception in Weimar Germany both in the field of avant-garde art and that of press criticism, highlighting the philosophical, ethico-political and psychological arguments exchanged in a wide and intensive debate on the human dimension of the Tramp character. By focusing on Sigried Kracauaer’s and Rudolf Arnheim’s chronicles, it seeks to illustrate two approaches that are contemporaries to Benjamin’s Rückblick auf Chaplin (1929), a brief review based on an essay written by the French surrealist poet Philippe Soupault. Lastly, it analyzes some notes on Charlot’s gestuality discarded from this famous essay and a fragment in which, six years before The Great Dictator (1940), Benjamin compares Chaplin to Hitler.
Fil: Ibarlucía, Ricardo. Universidad Nacional de San Martín; Argentina. Centro de Investigaciones Filosoficas. Instituto de Filosofia "ezequiel de Olaso". - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Oficina de Coordinacion Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Filosofia "ezequiel de Olaso".; Argentina
description 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 films in the different versions of his famous essay. Then it examines Chaplin’s reception in Weimar Germany both in the field of avant-garde art and that of press criticism, highlighting the philosophical, ethico-political and psychological arguments exchanged in a wide and intensive debate on the human dimension of the Tramp character. By focusing on Sigried Kracauaer’s and Rudolf Arnheim’s chronicles, it seeks to illustrate two approaches that are contemporaries to Benjamin’s Rückblick auf Chaplin (1929), a brief review based on an essay written by the French surrealist poet Philippe Soupault. Lastly, it analyzes some notes on Charlot’s gestuality discarded from this famous essay and a fragment in which, six years before The Great Dictator (1940), Benjamin compares Chaplin to Hitler.
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