Louvish, Simon,  1947- <br/><br/>
Chaplin :  the Tramp's odyssey / 
by Simon Louvish. 
 - First paperback edition. 
 - 457 pages :  illustrations ;  23 cm. 
 - The Louvish Hollywood biographies .
 - The Louvish Hollywood biographies .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/> An essential volume for understanding Charlie Chaplin's 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 Hollywood's richest man. He was a figure of multiple paradoxes. Simon Louvish's book looks afresh at the "mask behind the man." 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 "surreal" antics of early British music hall triumphantly onto the Hollywood screen. Louvish also looks anew at Chaplin's and the Tramp's social and political ideas--the challenge to fascism, defiance of the McCarthyite witch hunts, eventual "exile," 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 clown's raw energy, his ceaseless struggle against adversity, and his capacity to represent our own fears, foibles, dreams, inner demons and hopes. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781566560115 156656011X 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2017031533 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977. <br/>Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977 --Criticism and interpretation.<br/>Chaplin, Charlie 1889-1977 <br/>Chaplin, Charlie   1889-1977  --Crítica e interpretación
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Comedians--United States--Biography.<br/>Motion picture actors and actresses--United States--Biography.<br/>Motion picture producers and directors--United States--Biography.<br/>Comic, The.<br/>Actores y actrices estadounidenses --Biografías <br/>Actores estadounidenses --Biografías<br/>Productores y directores de cine--Estados Unidos --Biografías<br/>Cómicos --Biografías <br/>Cómicos estadounidenses --Biografías
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN 2287  / C464L 2018 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>791.43/028/092