The Essential Chaplin

Perspectives on the Life and Art of the Great Comedian

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Edited by Richard Schickel

Type

Essays

Subject

Director > Charlie Chaplin

Keywords

Charlie Chaplin

Publishing date

2006

Publisher

Ivan R. Dee

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 320 pages
6 ½ x 8 ¾ inches (16.5 x 22.5 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

1-56663-682-5
978-1-56663-682-7

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Book Presentation:
The most important criticism of the great comedian's work, including pieces by Andrew Sarris, David Thomson, Gilbert Seldes, Alistair Cooke, Robert E. Sherwood, Stark Young, Edmund Wilson, Stanley Kauffmann, Alexander Woollcott, George Jean Nathan, Max Eastman, Robert Warshow, Water Kerr, and James Agee. Richard Schickel, one of our outstanding film critics, has written a long introduction. Praise for Schickel's Chaplin documentary: An invaluable critic and historian.... Schickel's film...is like a course in cultural history taught by a witty, slightly dyspeptic professor.-A. O. Scott, New York Times

About the Author:
RICHARD SCHICKEL is a film critic, documentary film-maker and movie historian, who has written over thirty books, among them The Disney Version; D.W. Griffith: An American Life; Brando: A Life in Our Times; and a biography of Elia Kazan. His thirty documentaries include Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin; Woody Allen: A Life in Film; and Shooting War, which is about combat cameramen in World War II. He has recently completed a documentary about Martin Scorsese and a reconstruction of Samuel Fuller's classic war film, The Big One, was named one of the year's Ten Best Films by the New York Times. He has been reviewing movies for Time since 1972 and writes a monthly column, 'Film on Paper', for the Los Angeles Times Book Review.

Press Reviews:
"The Essential Chaplin stresses the significance of Charlie's oeuvre and directs the audience to its most hilarious films." ―The Wall Street Journal

"A wonderfully put-together overview of Chaplin's life and art." ―Ina Hughes, News-Sentinel

"[An] intrinsically valuable new anthology." ―Scott Eyman, The New York Observer

"A fascinating compilation...For fans, this book is a must; it is also valuable as a study of expository and critical writing." ―Dana Cobern-Kullman, Library Journal

"Collectively...insightful and thorough....this volume is a must" ―Choice Reviews

"The best pieces in this collection...are the ones that leaven admiration with healthy cynicism." ―Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times

"One of the finest English-language pieces on Chaplin ever written....The seminal text on the comedian." ―Jim Hempill, American Society of Cinematographers

"The book's best feature is its organized cacophony, its trace of this astonishingly long and rich body of work and personal travail....There is much to savor in these essays." ―Robert Jackson, Professor of Political Science, Florida State University, Virginia Quarterly Review

"[These] essays...deserve ongoing recommendation and mention for any Chaplin fan, whether newcomer or seasoned." ―Midwest Book Review

"Nearly thirty essays from film critic Richard Schickel deserve ongoing recommendation and mention for any Chaplin fan, whether newcomer or seasoned...an analysis of genius and methods rather than films alone, and one which holds up well against movie reviewer surveys or biographies alone." ―California Bookwatch

See the complete filmography of Charlie Chaplin on the website: IMDB ...