Tag: film

+ Annette Clapsaddle, Charlie Chaplin, cherokee, Even As We Breathe, fascism, movie, The Great Dictator, world war ii

Charlie Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator” and Speaking Against Fascism

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Over the past year, I have tried, at various times, to watch Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator (1940) because I kept seeing Chaplin’s famous speech from the end of the film. Every time I started the film, I couldn’t get past the first half hour, where Chaplin’s Jewish barber survives World War I and rescues Commander Schultz. I didn’t finish the movie until I reread Annette … Read More Charlie Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator” and Speaking Against Fascism

+ buster keaton, civil war, confederate monuments, history, memory

The Juxtaposition of Memory in Public Space

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On a recent trip, I stopped for coffee in Monticello, Georgia, a small town with a population of around 2,500 about 60 miles southeast of Atlanta. As with many older, small towns, everything centered around the town square, a space with the courthouse, shops, an inn, and other businesses. The middle of the square, where the old courthouse once stood, had become a small … Read More The Juxtaposition of Memory in Public Space

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