John Fawell

The Essence of Chaplin

The Style, the Rhythm and the Grace of a Master

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Produktbeschreibung

Charlie Chaplin's remarkable life and comedic talent have been the focus of countless popular and scholarly studies. In this groundbreaking work, Chaplin's often underrated skills as a film director take center stage. Highlighting the screen icon's significance as a filmmaker, this study focuses on the heart of Chaplin's cinema--his silent works starring his alter-ego, Charlie--and examines both his great silent film features like The Kid, The Gold Rush and Modern Times, and his shorter, earlier films like The Immigrant, The Pawn Shop, The Pilgrim and A Dog's Life. An analysis of the formal properties of Chaplin's filmmaking reveals the merit of his cinema, the depth of its emotion and the extent of its meaning. Chaplin is among the great artists of any medium, in any time, with an ability to touch on very subtle aspects of the human condition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9780786476343
• ISBN-10: 0786476346
• Artikelnr.: 40868964

Autorenporträt

John Fawell, a professor of humanities in the College of General Studies at Boston University, has written books on Alfred Hitchcock, Sergio Leone and the studio-era Hollywood film, as well as provided the film commentary for Universal Studio's Blu-ray release of Hitchcock's Rear Window. He lives in Quincy, Massachusetts.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Introduction delete
1 One: The Biography delete
11 Two: Charlie's Role-Playing delete
25 Three: Chaplin's Satire delete
37 Four: Beyond Satire: What Charlie Believes In delete
53 Five: Chaplin and the Intimacy of the Camera delete
65 Six: The Concrete and the Suggestive delete
81 Seven: Chaplin's Filmmaking Skills delete
94 Eight: Chaplin's Sense of Balance delete
116 Nine: Balance in the Character of Charlie delete
129 Ten: Charlie and Women delete
145 Eleven: Charlie, Dogs and Children delete
168 Twelve: Charlie and Men delete
185 Thirteen: Chaplin and Rhythm delete
200 Fourteen: Dance delete
208 Fifteen: Chaplin's Music delete
217 Sixteen: Two Musical Sequences delete
227 Chapter Notes delete
243 Bibliography delete
247 Index delete
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