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Chaplin - The Tramp's Odyssey (Paperback, Main)
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Chaplin - The Tramp's Odyssey (Paperback, Main)
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An Everyman who expressed the defiant spirit of freedom, Charlie
Chaplin was first lauded and later reviled in the America that made
him Hollywood's richest man. He was a figure of multiple paradoxes,
and many studies have sought to unveil 'the man behind the mask.'
Louvish charts the tale of the Tramp himself through his films -
from the early Mack Sennett shorts through the major features (The
Gold Rush, City Lights, Modern Times, The Great Dictator et al.) He
weighs the relationship between the Tramp, his creator, and his
world-wide fans, and in doing so retrieves Chaplin as the iconic
London street-kid who carried the 'surreal' antics of early
BritishMusic Hall triumphantly onto the Hollywood screen. Louvish
also looks anew at Chaplin's and the Tramp's social and political
ideas - the challenge to fascism, defiance of the McCarthyite
witch-hunts, eventual 'exile', and last mature disguises as the
serial-killer Monsieur Verdoux and the dying English clown Calvero
in Limelight. This book is an epic journey, summing up the roots of
Comedy and its appeal to audiences everywhere, who revelled in the
clown's raw energy, his ceaseless struggle against adversity, and
his capacity to represent our own fears, foibles, dreams, inner
demons and hopes.
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