Refocusing Chaplin a screen icon through critical lenses / edited by Lawrence Howe, James E. Caron, and Benjamin Click.

Other author Howe, Lawrence, 1952-
Other author Caron, James Edward, 1952-
Other author Click, Benjamin, 1958-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLanham : Scarecrow Press, Inc., [2013].
Descriptionxix, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Contents Preface: why refocus Chaplin? / By Lawrence Howe, James E. Caron, and Benjamin Click -- Introduction: the persisting appeal of Chaplin and Charlie / by Charles Maland -- 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 -- 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 -- A heart of gold: Charlie and the dance hall girls / by Cynthia J. Miller -- American masculinity and the gendered humor of Chaplin's Little tramp / by Lawrence Howe -- In the shadow of machines: modern times and the iconography of technology / by A. Bowdoin Van Riper -- Deconstruction and the tramp: Marxism, capitalism, and the trace / by Randall Gann -- Chaplin's presence / by Rachel Joseph -- 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 -- 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 -- Chaplin's Sound Statement on Silence: The Great Dictator as Rhetorical Encomium / by Benjamin Click.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 213-220) and index.
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LCCN 2013018734
ISBN9780810892255 (cloth : alk. paper)

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