No Place for Peace-Mongers: Charlie Chaplin, Monsieur Verdeux (1947) and Czechoslovak Communist Propaganda

Abstract

The article analyses media discourses that the Czechoslovak communist propaganda had mobilized in the 1940s-1950s around the actor/director Charlie Chaplin and Hollywood in order to communicate a particular image of the enemy of the socialist society.

Keywords

• Place
• Peace-Mongers
• Charlie
• Chaplin
• Monsieur
• Verdeux
• Czechoslovak
• Communist
• Propaganda