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01 December 1991

No detailed description available for "Charlie Chaplin".
Price: $144.99
Pages: 401
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter Mouton
Publication Date:
01 December 1991
ISBN: 9783110126006
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
PER004030 PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism, PER004040 PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Reference
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements to/ Remerciements à. Illustrations. We acknowledge / nous remercions: -- Preface / Préface -- Table of contents / Table des matières -- I. Charles Chaplin: The man, his work and his time / L’homme, l’œuvre et son temps -- Chaplin and the resistance to “talkies” -- Pretending the world is funny: Charlie Chaplin's job as the prototype comic personality -- Charles Chaplin and the Jewish world -- The Chaplin reception in Germany (Brilliant comedian and “Jewish film clown”) -- Charles Chaplin en compagnie de Schopenhauer -- Les implications de la technique chaplinesque du gag -- Molière, Chaplin: structures comiques -- Chaplin, la matière et l’allégement -- Charles Chaplin: an embodiment of paradox (le comique et la terreur) -- II. Charles Chaplin: His films / Etude de ses films -- Charlie Chaplin or the “vaudeville dispossessed” -- Chaplin’s short films: between narration and monstration -- Gag and narration in Chaplin's cinema at the transition from short to full-length movies (1918–1923) -- Charlie in the Far North: the tall tale element in The Gold Rush -- Comedy and Pathos in City Lights -- Modem Times and the American culture of the 1930's -- Modem Times in the light of Adorno and Beckett -- The social function of humor in Charles Chaplin’s movies -- Chaplin’s film pioneer status in black or macabre humor -- Les films “mineurs” de Chaplin -- III. Charles Chaplin: The myth / Le mythe -- Charlie Chaplin and the comic strips -- La représentation de Chariot dans deux magazines pour enfant: Mon Journal (1881–1925) et le Cri-Cri (1911–1937) -- Le dernier gag de Charles Chaplin -- Chaplin et Chariot -- Chariot et son double -- Chariot syllepse: éléments pour une théorie du gag -- Le point de vue de Gulliver -- La Ruée vers l’or -- Charles Chaplin, poète comique -- Postscript -- Postface -- IV. Bibliography/Bibliographie -- Books on and by Chaplin An international bibliography -- V. Appendices / Annexes -- Abstracts / Résumés -- Contributors / Signatures -- VI. Charles Chaplin: Filmography/Filmographie -- VII. Index -- VIII. Illustrations