Sport, City, Modernity: Chaplin’s Ironies

Authors

  • Victor Andrade Melo
  • Alexandre Fernandez Vaz

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36449/rth.v20i1.13794

Abstract

Cinema and sport are phenomena that have settled and have paths that crossed during the second half of the 19th century and the following century. In this study, we intend to discuss representations of modernity in one of these fruitful meetings between the two languages, promoted in the work of one of the greatest artists of world cinema: Charles Chaplin. We research eight short films produced between 1914 and 1921 and suggest that they, through humor and impeccable domain scenic and dramaturgical, made a critique of modernity, of some of his more accustomed themes. If Charlie’s body is the main vehicle of your approach, such films also show the importance of sports as an expression of modern experience.

Published

11-07-2016

How to Cite

MELO, V. A.; VAZ, A. F. Sport, City, Modernity: Chaplin’s Ironies. Tempos Históricos, [S. l.], v. 20, n. 1, p. 366–387, 2016. DOI: 10.36449/rth.v20i1.13794. Disponível em: https://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/temposhistoricos/article/view/13794. Acesso em: 9 apr. 2025.

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