Chaplin

Genius Of The Cinema

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by Jeffrey Vance

Type

Studies

Subject

Director > Charlie Chaplin

Keywords

Charlie Chaplin, biography

Publishing date

2003

Publisher

Abrams Books

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 400 pages
9 ½ x 12 ¼ inches (24 x 31 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-8109-4532-0
978-0-8109-4532-6

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Book Presentation:
Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), an immortal of the silver screen, was perhaps the greatest comic genius the world has known. To this day his beloved creation the Tramp remains the most universal representation of humanity in the history of film. Noted film historian and silent-comedy authority Jeffrey Vance has drawn on exhaustive research and interviews with those who knew Chaplin to produce this definitive illustrated account. Composed with full access to the Chaplin family archives, the book chronicles his entire complex life story and his creative process in 500 photographs, many of them rare and recently discovered, newly printed from the original negatives especially for this volume.

Describing the appeal of the Tramp, Chaplin wrote: "This fellow is many-sided-a tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure." The description also befits the artist himself, who endured a deprived childhood in late-Victorian London, numerous romances and four marriages, and political persecution during the anticommunist witch hunts, while leaving a legacy of 75 remarkable years of creative accomplishment. This third Abrams book by Jeffrey Vance on silent-film comedians coincides with the major international video/DVD release of newly restored Chaplin films.

About the Author:
Jeffrey Vance, a film historian and authority on silent-film comedy who has been involved in the restoration of many silent films, is the author of Abrams' Buster Keaton Remembered and Harold Lloyd: Master Comedian. He collaborated on two previous books on Charlie Chaplin. Vance lives in Los Angeles.

Press Reviews:
"...a deft amalgam of biography, film history, and criticism...a ravishing tribute to one of the cinema's true pioneers." -- Film Review, December 1, 2003

"...a lavishly appointed book, and an excellent photo-biography." -- The Independent, December 1, 2003

"...a significant addition to our knowledge of Chaplin...a revealing album." -- Los Angeles Times, November 1, 2003

"...ravishing...we are lead most eloquently through the amazing story...the photographs are beautiful and informative, and the text scrupulously researched." -- Claire Bloom

"...straightforward, fair, rich in anecdote and detail...the definitive pictorial record of the artist's life and work." -- The Australian, December 1, 2003

"...this gorgeous, unwieldy book succeeds in being several books...his [Vance's] judicious text is as fascinating as the photographs." -- New York Times, November 1, 2003

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