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Tramp

Author : Joyce Milton
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497659167
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Tramp written by Joyce Milton and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlie Chaplin made an amazing seventy-one films by the time he was only thirty-three years old. He was known not only as the world’s first international movie star, but as a comedian, a film director, and a man ripe with scandal, accused of plagiarism, communism, pacifism, liberalism, and anti-Americanism. He seduced young women, marrying four different times, each time to a woman younger than the last. In this animated biography of Chaplin, Joyce Milton reveals to us a life riddled with gossip and a struggle to rise from an impoverished London childhood to the life of a successful American film star. Milton shows us how the creation of his famous character—the Tramp, the Little Fellow—was both rewarding and then devastating as he became obsolete with the changes of time. Tramp is a perceptive, clever, and captivating biography of a talented and complicated man whose life was filled with scandal, politics, and art.

The Pinkerton Detective Series

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The Pinkerton Detective Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Railroad Trainman

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 924 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Railroad Trainman written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Film Clowns of the Depression

Author : Wes D. Gehring
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786483520
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Film Clowns of the Depression written by Wes D. Gehring and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-21 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1930s are routinely considered sound film's greatest comedy era. Though this golden age encompassed various genres of laughter, clown comedy is the most basic type. This work examines the Depression decade's most popular type of comedy--the clown, or personality comedian. Focusing upon the Depression era, the study filters its analysis through twelve memorable pictures. Each merits an individual chapter, in which it is critiqued. The films are deemed microcosmic representatives of the comic world and discussed in this context. While some of the comedians in this text have generated a great deal of previous analysis, funnymen like Joe E. Brown and Eddie Cantor are all but forgotten. Nevertheless, they were comedy legends in their time, and their legacy, as showcased in these movies, merits rediscovery by today's connoisseur of comedy. Even this book's more familiar figures, such as Charlie Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, are often simply relegated to being recognizable pop culture icons whose work has been neglected in recent years. This book attempts to address these oversights and to re-expose the brilliance and ingenuity with which the screen clowns contributed a comic resiliency that was desperately needed during the Depression and can still be greatly appreciated today. The films discussed are City Lights (1931, Chaplin), The Kid From Spain (1932, Cantor), She Done Him Wrong (1933, Mae West), Duck Soup (1933, Marx Brothers), Sons of the Desert (1933, Laurel and Hardy), Judge Priest (1934, Will Rogers), It's a Gift (1934, W.C. Fields), Alibi Ike (1935, Brown), A Night at the Opera (1935, Marx Brothers), Modern Times (1936, Chaplin), Way Out West (1937, Laurel and Hardy), and The Cat and the Canary (1939, Bob Hope).

Reframing Screen Performance

Author : Cynthia Baron
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472025414
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Reframing Screen Performance written by Cynthia Baron and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-02-11 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A significant contribution to the literature on screen performance studies, Reframing Screen Performance brings the study of film acting up to date. It should be of interest to those within cinema studies as well as general readers." ---Frank P. Tomasulo, Florida State University Reframing Screen Performance is a groundbreaking study of film acting that challenges the long held belief that great cinematic performances are created in the editing room. Surveying the changing attitudes and practices of film acting---from the silent films of Charlie Chaplin to the rise of Lee Strasberg's Actor's Studio in the 1950s to the eclecticism found in contemporary cinema---this volume argues that screen acting is a vital component of film and that it can be understood in the same way as theatrical performance. This richly illustrated volume shows how and why the evocative details of actors' voices, gestures, expressions, and actions are as significant as filmic narrative and audiovisual design. The book features in-depth studies of performances by Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, and Julianne Moore (among others) alongside subtle analyses of directors like Robert Altman and Akira Kurosawa, Sally Potter and Orson Welles. The book bridges the disparate fields of cinema studies and theater studies as it persuasively demonstrates the how theater theory can be illuminate the screen actor's craft. Reframing Screen Performance brings the study of film acting into the twenty-first century and is an essential text for actors, directors, cinema studies scholars, and cinephiles eager to know more about the building blocks of memorable screen performance. Cynthia Baron is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Bowling Green State University and co-editor of More Than a Method: Trends and Traditions in Contemporary Film Performance. Sharon Carnicke is Professor of Theater and Slavic Studies and Associate Dean of Theater at the University of Southern California and author of Stanislavsky in Focus.

Cinema's Melodramatic Celebrity

Author : Mandy Merck
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1911239767
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Cinema's Melodramatic Celebrity written by Mandy Merck and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-21 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the study of both celebrity and the cinema, Mandy Merck argues that modern fame and film melodrama are part of the same worldview, one that cannot resolve the relation of personal worth to social esteem. Tracing the history of this conundrum back to the philosophy of the seventeenth century and the theatre of the eighteenth, she demonstrates its convergence in stage melodrama and its intensification in the Hollywood star system. Are today's celebrities worth our attention? In that demand for judgement and the hope for its visual guidance, the melodramatic imagination survives – permeating not only fiction film, but documentary, the artist's film, and our self-exhibition on social media. Examining a range of classical and contemporary films from Charlie Chaplin's City Lights (1931) to Laura Poitras's Citizenfour (2014) , the many remakes of A Star Is Born, the compulsory exhibitionism of political celebrity and the unmasking of whistle-blowers, Merck illustrates the ways in which the cinema constantly restages the moral evaluation of prominent individuals, whether they are actors, artists, politicians or activists.

Homelessness in American Literature

Author : John Allen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317726286
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Homelessness in American Literature written by John Allen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the theme of homelessness in American literature from the Civil War through the depression. Drawing on the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Horatio Alger, Stephen Crane, Jacob Riis, Jack London, Meridel Le Sueur and many others, it reveals how homelessness has been either romanticized or objectified.

City Lights

Author : Charles J. Maland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838715096
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book City Lights written by Charles J. Maland and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1967, Charlie Chaplin told, 'I think I like 'City Lights' the best of all my films.' Based on archival research of Chaplin's production records, this work offers a history of the film's production and reception, as well as an examination of the film itself, with special attention to the sources of the final scene's emotional power.

Boy and Girl Tramps of America

Author : Thomas Minehan
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496843630
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Boy and Girl Tramps of America written by Thomas Minehan and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2023-01-27 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1933 and 1934, Thomas Minehan, a young sociologist at the University of Minnesota, joined the ranks of a roving army of 250,000 boys and girls torn from their homes during the Great Depression. Disguised in old clothes, he hopped freight trains crisscrossing six midwestern states. While undercover, Minehan associated on terms of social equality with several thousand transients, collecting five hundred life histories of the young migrants. The result was a vivid and intimate portrayal of a harrowing existence, one in which young people suffered some of the deadliest blows of the economic disaster. Boy and Girl Tramps of America reveals the poignant experiences of American youth who were sent out on the road by grinding poverty, shattered family relationships, and financially strapped schools that locked their doors. For these young people, danger was a constant companion that could turn deadly in an instant. The book documents the hunger and hardships these youth faced, capturing an appalling spectacle and social problem in America’s history before any effort was made to meet the problem on a nationwide basis by the federal government. Boy and Girl Tramps of America is a work unique in its ability to extend beyond statistical analyses to uncover the opinions, ideas, and attitudes of the boxcar boys and girls. Originally published in 1934, it remains highly relevant to the turbulent moments of the twenty-first century. This reprint features an introduction by scholar Susan Honeyman that puts the work into our current context.

The Comedy of Philosophy

Author : Lisa Trahair
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791479323
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book The Comedy of Philosophy written by Lisa Trahair and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Comedy of Philosophy brings modern debates in continental philosophy to bear on the historical study of early cinematic comedy. Through the films of Mack Sennett, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, and the Marx Brothers, Lisa Trahair investigates early cinema's exploration of sense and nonsense by utilizing the contributions to the philosophy of comedy made by Freud and Bataille and by examining significant poststructuralist interpretations of their work. Trahair explores the shift from the excessive physical slapstick of the Mack Sennett era to the so-called structural comedy of the 1920s, and also offers a new perspective on the importance of psychoanalysis for the study of film by focusing on the implications of Freud's theory of the unconscious for our understanding of visuality.

Charlie Chaplin

Author : Adolphe Nysenholc
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311085774X
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Charlie Chaplin written by Adolphe Nysenholc and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Locomotive Engineers Journal

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1208 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Locomotive Engineers Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers' Monthly Journal

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers' Monthly Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineer's Monthly Journal

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineer's Monthly Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On Hobos and Homelessness

Author : Nels Anderson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226019673
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book On Hobos and Homelessness written by Nels Anderson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nels Anderson was a pioneer in the study of the homeless. In the early 1920s Anderson combined his own experience "on the bummery," with his keen sociological insight to give voice to a largely ignored underclass. He remains an extraordinary and underrated figure in the history of American sociology. On Hobos and Homelessness includes Anderson's rich and vibrant ethnographic work of a world of homeless men. He conducted his study on Madison street in Chicago, and we come to intimately know this portion of the 1920s hobo underworld—the harshness of vagrant life and the adventures of young hobos who come to the big city. This selection also includes Anderson's later work on the juvenile and the tramp, the unattached migrant, and the family. Like John Steinbeck's Depression-era observations, Anderson's writings express the memory of those who do not seem entitled to have memory, whose lives were expressed in temporary labor.

Dramatic Compositions Copyrighted in the United States, 1870 to 1916 ...

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1898 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dramatic Compositions Copyrighted in the United States, 1870 to 1916 ... written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Charlie Chaplin, Director

Author : Donna Kornhaber
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810129523
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Charlie Chaplin, Director written by Donna Kornhaber and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlie Chaplin was one of the cinema’s consummate comic performers, yet he has long been criticized as a lackluster film director. In this groundbreaking work—the first to analyze Chaplin’s directorial style—Donna Kornhaber radically recasts his status as a filmmaker. Spanning Chaplin’s career, Kornhaber discovers a sophisticated "Chaplinesque" visual style that draws from early cinema and slapstick and stands markedly apart from later, "classical" stylistic conventions. His is a manner of filmmaking that values space over time and simultaneity over sequence, crafting narrative and meaning through careful arrangement within the frame rather than cuts between frames. Opening up aesthetic possibilities beyond the typical boundaries of the classical Hollywood film, Chaplin’s filmmaking would profoundly influence directors from Fellini to Truffaut. To view Chaplin seriously as a director is to re-understand him as an artist and to reconsider the nature and breadth of his legacy.