Chaplin's America

America And The American Dream In The Work Of Charlie Chaplin

• The American Dream In All Its States
• America, A Land Of Freedom ?
• A Subversive Turn Of Mind

Of The Unheimlichkeit Or Unsettling Strangeness Of The World

• From The Bankruptcy Of Traditional Worldviews To A Sense Of An Undecipherable World
• Of Human Contradictions

Of Dreams And Attitudes Towards Life

• The Tramp, Or Innocence Retrieved
• From Paradise Lost To The Dignified Refusal To Surrender
• Pathways… Between Heaven And Earth
• Unexpected America

Morgane Jourdren is Associate Professor of American studies at the University of Angers and a member of the AFEA. She wrote a doctoral dissertation on Charlie Chaplin and organized an international symposium to celebrate the centennial of the Little Tramp in 2014, the proceedings of which were published as La Figure de Charlot et ses Avatars (Rennes, PUR, 2015). She participated in the “Chaplin in the Eye of the Avant-Garde” exhibition at the musée d’Arts de Nantes in 2019. She was also the special guest of various radio shows, including “Grande traversée : Charlie Chaplin, the artist” (France Culture, July 21st, 2016) and “La Compagnie des Oeuvres : L’Amérique de Chaplin” (France Culture, May 11th, 2021).