03318cam a2200553 i 4500 19765602 BJBSDDR 20240822103732.0 ta 170630s2018 maua b 000 0beng 2017031533 9781566560115 156656011X DLC eng DLC rda DLC eng pcc n-us--- PN 2287 C464L 2018 791.43/028/092 Louvish, Simon, 1947- 37972 Chaplin : the Tramp's odyssey / by Simon Louvish. First paperback edition. Northampton, Massachusetts : Interlink Books, 2018. 457 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier The Louvish Hollywood biographies Includes bibliographical references. 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. Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977. Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977 Criticism and interpretation. Chaplin, Charlie (Charles Spencer), 1889-1977 6682 Chaplin, Charlie (Charles Spencer), 1889-1977 Crítica e interpretación 23456 Comedians United States Biography. Motion picture actors and actresses United States Biography. Motion picture producers and directors United States Biography. Comic, The. Actores y actrices estadounidenses Biografías 37508 Actores estadounidenses Biografías 3807 Productores y directores de cine Estados Unidos Biografías 2429 Cómicos Biografías 38059 Cómicos estadounidenses Biografías 38060 The Louvish Hollywood biographies 38058 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK dpf 121924 121924 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2024-08-14 0 PN 2287 C464L 2018 00000183476 2024-08-14 00:00:00 1 2024-08-14 BK