An essential volume for understanding Chaplinās body of work. An Everyman who expressed the defiant spirit of freedom, Charlie Chaplin was first lauded and later reviled in the America that made him Hollywoodās richest man. He was a figure of multiple paradoxes. Simon Louvishās book looks afresh at the āmask behind the man.ā Louvish charts the tale of the Tramp himself through his films, from the early Mack Sennett shorts through the major features (The Gold Rush, City Lights, Modern Times, The Great Dictator, et al.). He retrieves Chaplin as the iconic London street kid who carried the āsurrealā antics of early British music hall triumphantly onto the Hollywood screen. Louvish also looks anew at Chaplinās and the Trampās social and political ideasāthe challenge to fascism, defiance of the McCarthyite witch hunts, eventual āexile,ā and last mature disguises as the serial killer Monsieur Verdoux and the dying English clown Calvero in Limelight. This book is an epic journey, summing up the roots of comedy and its appeal to audiences everywhere, who reveled in the clownās raw energy, his ceaseless struggle against adversity, and his capacity to represent our own fears, foibles, dreams, inner demons and hopes.
This book title, Chaplin (The Tramp's Odyssey), ISBN: 9781566560115, by Simon Louvish, published by Interlink Publishing Group Inc (September 15, 2016) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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