Woodward, Steven (2013) Ashes to Ashes: The End (and Means) of Sacha Baron Cohen’s The Dictator. In: Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 6-10 March 2013, Chicago. (Unpublished)
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Abstract
Is Sacha Baron Cohen's film The Dictator (Larry Charles, 2012) a continuation of Cohen's previous work, in which he ambushed and lampooned many important public figures, or is it pre-social comedy? While echoing many of the elements of Charles Chaplin's 1940 The Great Dictator and including many moments of pointed social and political satire, it is also suffused with the comedy of the abject, so that -- as with the "bifocalism" of much cringe comedy -- the ultimate end of this film cannot be determined. This paper was originally presented in a slightly different form at the annual conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, 6-10 March 2013. Specifically, video clips were shown in place of the multiple frame captures used as illustrations in this paper.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Divisions: | Humanities > Film Studies |
| Depositing User: | Professor Steven Woodward |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Mar 2015 12:55 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Mar 2015 12:55 |
| URI: | http://eprints.ubishops.ca/id/eprint/62 |
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