Charlotte Servel

Docteure

Université de Paris Cité

FR

Biography

Agrégée of modern literature, Charlotte Servel is a graduate assistant at the University of Caen Normandy. Her PhD dissertation on Cinema and Literature defended in 2020 is titled Slapstick Cinema, another Origin on Surrealism. The Practices of Surrealists analyzed through the prism of Slapstick Films during the Roaring Twenties. She leads the "Series writing" project for the CNC. She is a member of AFRHC's board of directors. She published several texts most notably in 1895, Demeter, Double Jeu

Articles (1)

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Soupault and USA: Cinema and Surrealist Poetry in the Roaring Twenties

In the early 1920s, French Surrealist Philippe Soupault saw in American film a new form of modernity capable of regenerating French poetry. This article analyzes the Americanization of an avant-garde movement by examining the role that idealization played.