City lights / Charles Maland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maland, Charles J.

Series:

BFI film classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City lights (Motion picture).

Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977.

Chaplin, Charlie.

Physical Description:

128 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : British Film Institute, 2007.

Summary:

Despite its long and difficult production history, in 1967 Charlie Chaplin told an interviewer, "I think I like "City Lights" the best of all my films." Aesthetically, technologically, and culturally," City Lights" is a key transitional film in Chaplin's body of work, as the director/writer/actor responded for the first time to sound films and stepped in the direction of the social commentary that would become more overt in "Modern Times" (1936) and" The Great Dictator" (1940). Based on extensive archival research of Chaplin's production records, Charles Maland's " City Lights" offers a careful history of the film's production and reception, as well as a close examination of the film itself, with special attention to the sources of the final scene's emotional power.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-128).

ISBN:

1844571750

9781844571758

OCLC:

154697798