The Essential Chaplin: Perspectives on the Life and Art of the Great Comedian by Schickel, Richard
The Essential Chaplin: Perspectives on the Life and Art of the Great Comedian by Schickel, Richard

The Essential Chaplin: Perspectives on the Life and Art of the Great Comedian

At age twenty-eight, Charlie Chaplin was a millionaire and one of the world's most famous personalities. He...
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The Essential Chaplin: Perspectives on the Life and Art of the Great Comedian by Schickel, Richard

The Essential Chaplin: Perspectives on the Life and Art of the Great Comedian

$44.78
The Essential Chaplin: Perspectives on the Life and Art of the Great Comedian by Schickel, Richard

The Essential Chaplin: Perspectives on the Life and Art of the Great Comedian

$44.78
Author: Richard Schickel
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
At age twenty-eight, Charlie Chaplin was a millionaire and one of the world's most famous personalities. He had grown rich playing the poorest of men. He was to go on playing unforgettable characters in timeless films, but now the psychology of celebrity began both to drive and to damage his creativity. Richard Schickel, the distinguished film critic, has called Chaplin the first victim of modern celebrity culture, "driven by his relentless ego, by his helpless need for an audience to dominate, to lead. All the tragedies of his life stemmed from those drives and needs." Mr. Schickel is the rarest of Chaplin enthusiasts, an unabashed fan who can celebrate the object of his affection without looking away when his subject deserves a poking. In this indispensable collection of some thirty essays, he has selected the most provocative and insightful criticisms of Chaplin's life and work, from the great comedian's beginnings through his early features, his mid-life crisis, and his late films. The contributors include Andrew Sarris, David Thomson, Andre Bazin, Gilbert Seldes, Alistair Cooke, Frances Hackett, Robert E. Sherwood, Stark Young, Penelope Gilliatt, Edmund Wilson, Stanley Kauffmann, Alexander Woollcott, George Jean Nathan, Winston Churchill, Max Eastman, Graham Greene, Otis Ferguson, James Agee, Dwight Macdonald, Robert Warshow, Walter Kerr, J. Hoberman, and others. Mr. Schickel, the last critic to study Chaplin intensively (for his award-winning documentary of a year ago), offers a long Introduction.

Author: Richard Schickel
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Published: 05/18/2006
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.42h x 5.50w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9781566637015


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 07/01/2006 pg. 80
Booklist 07/01/2006 pg. 18
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2006 pg. 295
School Library Journal 11/01/2006 pg. 175

About the Author
Richard Schickel, longtime film critic for Time magazine, also contributes regularly to the Los Angeles Times. He has written biographies of Clint Eastwood, Marlon Brando, James Cagney, D. W. Griffith, Cary Grant, and Walt Disney, as well as Matinee Idylls, The Men Who Made the Movies, Intimate Strangers, Woody Allen, and a memoir, Good Morning, Mr. Zip Zip Zip. His most recent book is a highly praised biography of Elia Kazan. He lives in Los Angeles.


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