Cinepoetry: Imaginary Cinemas in French Poetry
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“Their Charlie and our Charlot” “Their Charlie and our Charlot”
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Automatic Riding Automatic Riding
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Ivan Goll's “Kino-Poem” Ivan Goll's “Kino-Poem”
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Arrhythmia: Charlot as Housefly Arrhythmia: Charlot as Housefly
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Six Doing Filmic Things with Words: On Chaplin
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Published:01 November 2012
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Abstract
Chaplin's Essanay and Mutuals films arrived in France in 1916, during the war, eliciting strong reactions from artists, writers and poets, and directly hastening the first experimental cinepoems in 1917-18. This chapter explores how the fundamentally paradoxical embodiment that Chaplin figured in his movies--vulnerable yet invulnerable, Romantic yet unsentimental, noble yet a bum, small yet powerful, spastic yet unshakeable, animated yet reified, etc.—reached into French poetry. Aragon noted this ontological plasticity of Chaplin, and Goll developed the demiurgic, rebellious, but also abject, even insect-like nature of the Tramp's persona. Indeed Michaux, Ponge, Soupault and Debord all compare Chaplin to a lowly insect, a social parasite. The housefly in particular, because of its faceted eye, angular flight, and ubiquitous gaze, became an animalized metaphor for the camera and the film apparatus. Chaplin's body and films are thus the site where crucial esthetic and epistemological mutations were discovered that came to shape cinepoetry through what I call Chaplin's ‘automatic riding.’
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