Refocusing Chaplin
Subtitle: a screen icon through critical lenses
By: edited by Lawrence Howe, James E. Caron, and Benjamin Click
Publisher: Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780810892255; 9780810892262
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-220) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: why refocus Chaplin? / By Lawrence Howe, James E. Caron, and Benjamin Click; title: Introduction: the persisting appeal of Chaplin and Charlie / by Charles Maland; title: Chaplin's "Charlie" as Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological everyman or, how bodily intelligence manifests the personae, styles, and fable of slapstick / by James E. Caron; title: Chaplin and the static image: a Barthesian analysis of the visual in My trip abroad and "A comedian sees the world" / by Lisa Stein Haven; title: A heart of gold: Charlie and the dance hall girls / by Cynthia J. Miller; title: American masculinity and the gendered humor of Chaplin's Little tramp / by Lawrence Howe; title: In the shadow of machines: modern times and the iconography of technology / by A. Bowdoin Van Riper; title: Deconstruction and the tramp: Marxism, capitalism, and the trace / by Randall Gann; title: Chaplin's presence / by Rachel Joseph; title: The paradox of the "Dictactor": mimesis, logic of paradox, and the reinstatement of catharsis in The great dictator, Monsieur Verdoux, and Limelight / by Marco Grosoli; title: Charles Chaplin sings a silent requiem: Chaplin's films from 1928-1952 as cinematic statement on the transition from silent cinema to the talkies / by Aner Preminger; title: Chaplin's Sound Statement on Silence: The Great Dictator as Rhetorical Encomium / by Benjamin Click.