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Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema (Hardcover)

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  • Hardcover: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (15 Nov 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0810945320
  • ISBN-13: 978-0810945326
  • Product Dimensions: 30.8 x 23.7 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 18,710 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Charlie Chaplin was the first international cinema star and one of the greatest comic geniuses the world has known. Drawing on research and interviews with those who knew Chaplin, Jeffrey Vance presents an illustrated account which captures Chaplin's fascinating life as well as his creative process. Vance describes in detail the atmosphere on Chaplin's film sets and his relationships with the cast and crew, his first attempts at comedy sequences that later became famous, and the main themes and ideas that persist through the major Chaplin films. Chaplin's rags-to-riches life story is also represented in these pages, every stage of which is documented in photographs: his poverty-stricken childhood in late Victorian London, his unparalleled success in Hollywood, his numerous romances and four marriages, his political persecution during the anti-communist witch-hunts, and his happy years of quiet exile in Switzerland.


About the Author

Jeffrey Vance is a film historian and an authority on silent-film comedy. He is the author of Abrams' Buster Keaton Remembered and Harold Lloyd: Master Comedian. He collaborated on two previous books on Chaplin: Wife of the Life of the Party with Lita Grey Chaplin and Making Music with Charlie Chaplin with Eric James. Vance has been involved in the preservation and restoration of many silent films.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Cinematic Shakespeare!, 18 Jan 2004
By C. Johnson (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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Author Jeffrey Vance's claim that "What Shakespeare is to Elizabethan theater, Dickens to the Victorian novel, and Picasso to modern art, Chaplin is to twentieth-centry cinemal" may sound remarkably audacious, but this exquisite 400 page book not only shows the truth of this statement with delightful narrative, but most impressively, *illustrates* the truth of it. Here are photographs, know and unknown, reproduced in stunning clarity and freshness as though they were only taken just yesterday instead of (for many of them) nearly one hundred years ago, showing the little fellow at work. Candid photos, behind the scenes phtos, movie stills, photos of him at his zeniths, at his lows, shots showcasing his flaws and imperfections as a person, and his incredible creativity as an artist-- they are priceless pieces of cinema history that any fan of classic film will enjoy seeing.

The love put into this book is evident by the sheer quality contained herein. The public has seen 'the Chaplin image' so many times, that as the book points out, the respect for the ground-breaking brilliance of the artist's work is being lost to cynics and those who would downplay his role in cinema history to laud other less known filmmakers.

But this book successfully illustrates that they are forgetting one thing:

Chaplin doesn't just have a ROLE in cinema history, he helped CREATE cinema history.

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