The Essential Chaplin Perspectives on the Life and Art of the Great Comedian,9781566636827

The Essential Chaplin Perspectives on the Life and Art of the Great Comedian

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ISBN13: 9781566636827
ISBN10: 1566636825
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-05-25
Publisher(s): Ivan R. Dee
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Summary

The most important criticism of the great comedian's work, including pieces by Andrew Sarris, David Thomson, Gilbert Seldes, Alistair Cooke, Robert E. Sherwood, Stark Young, Edmund Wilson, Stanley Kauffmann, Alexander Woollcott, George Jean Nathan, Max Eastman, Robert Warshow, Water Kerr, and James Agee. Richard Schickel, one of our outstanding film critics, has written a long introduction. Praise for Schickel's Chaplin documentary: An invaluable critic and historian.... Schickel's film...is like a course in cultural history taught by a witty, slightly dyspeptic professor.-A. O. Scott, New York Times

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Tramp Transformed 3(42)
I. Five Overviews
The Most Harmonious Comedian
45(14)
ANDREW SARRIS
The Demon Tramp
59(6)
DAVID THOMSON
Charlie Chaplin's Film Heroines
65(11)
STEPHEN M. WEISSMAN
The Art of Charlie Chaplin
76(9)
ELIE FAURE
Charlie Chaplin
85(12)
ANDRÉ BAZIN
II. In the Beginning
The Art of Charles Chaplin
97(3)
MINNIE MADDERN FISKE
The Tramp
100(3)
GILBERT ADAIR
"I Am Here To-day"
103(17)
GILBERT SELDES
Fame
120(33)
ALISTAIR COOKE
III. The Early Features
The Kid
153(4)
FRANCIS HACKETT
The Pilgrim
157(4)
ROBERT E. SHERWOOD
"Dear Mr. Chaplin"
161(5)
STARK YOUNG
On "A Woman of Paris"
166(4)
PENELOPE GILLIATT
The New Chaplin Comedy
170(6)
EDMUND WILSON
Dorado Eldorado
176(7)
G. CABRERA INFANTE
The Circus
183(5)
STARK YOUNG
The Circus
188(4)
STANLEY KAUFFMANN
Charlie—As Ever Was
192(7)
ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT
The Chaplin Buncombe
199(6)
GEORGE JEAN NATHAN
IV. A Mid-Life Crisis
Everybody's Language
205(10)
WINSTON CHURCHHILL
Chaplin at Mid-Passage
215(4)
MAX EASTMAN
Charlie Chaplin
219(6)
BROOKS ATKINSON
The Late Features Modern Times
225(3)
GRAHAM GREENE
Hallelujah, Bum Again
228(4)
OTIS FERGUSON
The Great Dictator
232(3)
DILYS POWELL
Less Time for Comedy
235(4)
OTIS FERGUSON
Monsieur Verdoux
239(12)
JAMES AGEE
Monsieur Verdoux
251(10)
DWIGHT MACDONALD
Monsieur Verdoux
261(6)
ANDREW SARRIS
Chaplin Times Two
267(6)
THEODOR W. ADORNO
A Feeling of Sad Dignity
273(14)
ROBERT WARSHOW
The Lineage of Limelight
287(10)
WALTER KERR
VI. In Conclusion
After the Gold Rush: Chaplin at One Hundred
297(8)
J. HOBERMAN
Index 305

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