Tag: semiotics

  • Perfect and ephemeral: Chaplin as cinematic sign

    Perfect and ephemeral: Chaplin as cinematic sign

    Driving back and forth past this outhouse on the small island of Waiheke in New Zealand/Aotearoa over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been struck by the incongruity of finding this image of Charlie Chaplin at what feels like, from a Eurocentric perspective, the edge of the world. The figure of Chaplin dressed in the…