This is a collection of scholarly essays that focuses on particular phases of Chaplin's career through various critical lenses, in order to highlight the understated, and often overlooked, complexity of Chaplin's filmmaking, and to provide insight into both the extensive range and the limits of the critical leverage of a broad array of interpretive theories.
This is a collection of scholarly essays that focuses on particular phases of Chaplin's career through various critical lenses, in order to highlight the understated, and often overlooked, complexity of Chaplin's filmmaking, and to provide insight into both the extensive range and the limits of the critical leverage of a broad array of interpretive theories.
Lawrence Howe is professor of English and Film Studies at Roosevelt University. He is the author of Mark Twain and the Novel: The Double-Cross of Authority (2009). James E. Caron is professor of English at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. He is the coeditor of Sut Lovingood's Nat'ral Born Yarnspinner: Essays on George Washington Harris (1996) and author of Mark Twain, Unsanctified Newspaper Reporter (2008). Benjamin Click is Chair of the English Department at St. Mary's College of Maryland and Director of the Twain Lecture Series on American Humor Culture.
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Preface: Why Refocus Chaplin? Lawrence Howe, James E. Caron, and Benjamin Click Acknowledgements Introduction: The Persisting Appeal of Chaplin and Charlie Charles Maland Chapter 1: Chaplin's "Charlie" as Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenological Everyman or, How Bodily Intelligence Manifests the Personae, Styles, and Fable of Slapstick James E. Caron Chapter 2: Chaplin and the Static Image: A Barthesian Analysis of the Visual in My Trip Abroad and "A Comedian Sees the World" Lisa Stein Haven Chapter 3: A Heart of Gold: Charlie and the Dance Hall Girls Cynthia J. Miller Chapter 4: American Masculinity and The Gendered Humor of Chaplin's Little Tramp Lawrence Howe Chapter 5: In the Shadow of Machines: Modern Times and the Iconography of Technology A. Bowdoin Van Riper Chapter 6: Deconstruction and the Tramp: Marxism, Capitalism, and the Trace Randall Gann Chapter 7: Chaplin's Presence Rachel Joseph Chapter 8: The Paradox of the "Dictactor": Mimesis, Logic of Paradox, and the Reinstatement of Catharsis in The Great Dictator, Monsieur Verdoux, and Limelight Marco Grosoli Chapter 9: Charles Chaplin Sings a Silent Requiem: Chaplin's Films from 1928-1952 as Cinematic Statement on the Transition from Silent Cinema to the Talkies Aner Preminger Chapter 10: Chaplin's Sound Statement on Silence: The Great Dictator as Rhetorical Encomium Benjamin Click Bibliography Index About the Contributors About the Editors
Preface: Why Refocus Chaplin? Lawrence Howe, James E. Caron, and Benjamin Click Acknowledgements Introduction: The Persisting Appeal of Chaplin and Charlie Charles Maland Chapter 1: Chaplin's "Charlie" as Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenological Everyman or, How Bodily Intelligence Manifests the Personae, Styles, and Fable of Slapstick James E. Caron Chapter 2: Chaplin and the Static Image: A Barthesian Analysis of the Visual in My Trip Abroad and "A Comedian Sees the World" Lisa Stein Haven Chapter 3: A Heart of Gold: Charlie and the Dance Hall Girls Cynthia J. Miller Chapter 4: American Masculinity and The Gendered Humor of Chaplin's Little Tramp Lawrence Howe Chapter 5: In the Shadow of Machines: Modern Times and the Iconography of Technology A. Bowdoin Van Riper Chapter 6: Deconstruction and the Tramp: Marxism, Capitalism, and the Trace Randall Gann Chapter 7: Chaplin's Presence Rachel Joseph Chapter 8: The Paradox of the "Dictactor": Mimesis, Logic of Paradox, and the Reinstatement of Catharsis in The Great Dictator, Monsieur Verdoux, and Limelight Marco Grosoli Chapter 9: Charles Chaplin Sings a Silent Requiem: Chaplin's Films from 1928-1952 as Cinematic Statement on the Transition from Silent Cinema to the Talkies Aner Preminger Chapter 10: Chaplin's Sound Statement on Silence: The Great Dictator as Rhetorical Encomium Benjamin Click Bibliography Index About the Contributors About the Editors
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