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Mr K meets Modern Times: Intertextual closure in La Vis
- Source: Short Film Studies, Volume 11, Issue 1, Jan 2021, p. 31 - 35
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- 27 Feb 2020
- 22 Mar 2020
- 01 Jan 2021
Abstract
Among the many functions that the doppelgänger-twist in La Vis fulfils, it also stages a convergence of the film’s two most self-conscious influences – Kafkaesque bureaucracy in The Trial (1925) and The Castle (1926); and Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times (1936) – in which Mr K comes face-to-face with the Tramp.
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