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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Charlie Chaplin  |  film criticism  |  Monsieur Verdoux  |  Cold War  |  James Agee  |  André Bazin  |  auteurism  |  Holocaust

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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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