Refocusing Chaplin: a screen icon through critical lenses
2014; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 51; Issue: 09 Linguagem: Inglês
10.5860/choice.51-4924
ISSN1943-5975
AutoresLawrence Howe, James E. Caron, Benjamin Click,
Tópico(s)Theatre and Performance Studies
ResumoPreface: Why Refocus Chaplin? Lawrence Howe, James E. Caron, and Benjamin Click Acknowledgements Introduction: The Persisting Appeal of Chaplin and Charles Maland Chapter 1: Chaplin's Charlie as Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenological Everyman or, How Bodily Intelligence Manifests the Personae, Styles, and Fable of Slapstick James E. Caron Chapter 2: Chaplin and the Static Image: Barthesian Analysis of the Visual in My Trip Abroad and A Comedian Sees the World Lisa Stein Haven Chapter 3: Heart of Gold: and the Dance Hall Girls Cynthia J. Miller Chapter 4: American Masculinity and The Gendered Humor of Chaplin's Little Tramp Lawrence Howe Chapter 5: In the Shadow of Machines: Modern Times and the Iconography of Technology A. Bowdoin Van Riper Chapter 6: Deconstruction and the Tramp: Marxism, Capitalism, and the Trace Randall Gann Chapter 7: Chaplin's Presence Rachel Joseph Chapter 8: The Paradox of the Dictactor: Mimesis, Logic of Paradox, and the Reinstatement of Catharsis in The Great Dictator, Monsieur Verdoux, and Limelight Marco Grosoli Chapter 9: Charles Chaplin Sings a Silent Requiem: Chaplin's Films from 1928-1952 as Cinematic Statement on the Transition from Silent Cinema to the Talkies Aner Preminger Chapter 10: Chaplin's Sound Statement on Silence: The Great Dictator as Rhetorical Encomium Benjamin Click Bibliography Index About the Contributors About the Editors
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