There was an astronomy prof at my college who collected Chaplin (and other silent) movies and would show them throughout the year, with his wonderful ragtime piano accompaniment.
This sounds like something I'm going to like.
My uncle, who once taught ancient greek at johns hopkins, explained to me the ancient greek understanding of sacred and profane was that profane was the normal relationship with reality, and what was outside of that was sacred. The example he gave was that in order to be executed, prisoners first had to be made sacred, so that killing them wasn't a transgression.
You would love Eliade’s The Sacred and Profane.
This also is a good prerequisite to understand Girard’s work.