Author: LOUVISH, SIMON
Title: Chaplin : the tramp's odyssey / Simon Louvish
Description: New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2009. First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 412 pages; Description: xix. 412 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Chaplin. Charlie. 1889-1977. Comedians --United States --Biography. Motion picture actors and actresses --United States --Biography. Summary: 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 new book. following his five major biographies of comedy's classic stars. from W. C. Fields to Laurel and Hardy and Mae West. 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.Weight in Kg appr.:

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