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2) Chaplin
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Charles Chaplin tuvo una vida digna de una gran novela. Desde sus inicios en el teatro de Inglaterra hasta los proyectores de Hollywood, y el final de su vida retirada en Suiza, Chaplin siempre fue fiel a sí mismo y a sus compromisos cívicos y morales. Sam Stourdzé, comisario de la exposición 'Chaplin en imágenes' y gran especialista del actor, repasa aquí la trayectoria excepcional de esta estrella del séptimo arte. A través de una rica iconografía,...
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This book explores Chaplin{u2019}s sophisticated visual comedy, providing insights into how Chaplin achieved his legendary rapport with audiences and demonstrating why comedy created nearly a century ago remains fresh today. The author also interprets each of the comedian's sound films, showing how Chaplin remained true to his silent comedy roots even as he kept reinventing his art for changing times.
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"This thorough guide to Chaplin's films traces his acting career chronologically. The author frames the biographical details of Chaplin's life within the context of his acting and filmmaking career, placing special emphasis on the films Chaplin directed/produced"--Provided by publisher.
5) Chaplin
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Placing Chaplin in the development of the motion pictures, author Smith covers all the entire available (viewing) body of this comedian/director/writer/producer's work, devoting more space to Chaplin's "talking pictures" than his silent shorts. He concentrates on the last three films Chaplin made in the United States, "The Great Dictator", "Monsieur Verdoux" and "Linelight"--Explaining convincingly his high regard for this trilogy - the films being...
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From the Publisher: An Authoritative new biography of the greatest cinematic comedian of all time. Born in London in 1889, Charlie Chaplin grew up in dire poverty. Both his parents were in show business, but his father's flourishing career was cut short by severe alcoholism, and his beloved mother first lost her voice, then lost her mind to syphilis. Even when both his parents were alive, Charlie at age seven was committed to the Hanwell School for...
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Chaplin and Agee charts the friendship between James Agee, author of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and Pulitzer Prize-winning A Death in the Family and screenwriter for American classics including The African Queen, and Charlie Chaplin, who starred in a staggering number of films from 1914 to 1967. This friendship emerged in the midst of the tumult of the 1940s and 1950s, with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, McCarthyism and blacklisting....
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Charlie Chaplin grew up in and around the music hall. His parents, aunt, and their friends all earned their precarious livings on the stage and Chaplin himself started his career as a member of the Eight Lancashire Lads dance troupe. His experiences of the culture of the music hall were a significant influence, shaping his style of acting and the films he made. Chaplin?s family and the circle of fellow performers whose life stories are told in this...
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Chaplan recalls "his boyhood; the early, casual days of the movies; how he evolved his style, his costumes, his plots, his sudden dazzling success; how he chose his leading ladies; his encounters with great stars and world figures, from Mary Pickford to Gandhi to Bernard Shaw to FDR; his emotional involvements and his four marriages . . . and the political accusations that made him decide to leave the United States."
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