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Charlie Chaplin, Director / Donna Kornhaber.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kornhaber, Donna, 1979- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977--Criticism and interpretation.
- Chaplin, Charlie.
- Motion pictures--Production and direction--United States.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion picture producers and directors--United States.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 341 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Charlie Chaplin was one of the cinema's consummate comic performers, yet he has long been criticized as a lackluster film director.In this groundbreaking work--the first to analyze Chaplin's directorial style--Donna Kornhaber radically recasts his status as a filmmaker.
- Contents:
- Part I. Chaplin in context
- Chaplin at Keystone, Griffith at Biograph
- The slapstick exemption
- Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, and the classical style
- Part II. The silent era
- Chaplin's filmmaking technique
- Chaplin's filmmaking philosophy
- A masterpiece of mediation: City lights
- Part III. The sound era
- Dangerous voices: modern times and the great dictator
- Substituting speech for style: Monsieur Verdoux, Limelight, and A king in New York
- Return to form: A countess from Hong Kong
- Epilogue: the Chaplin century.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8101-6751-4
- OCLC:
- 879352110
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