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The Essential Chaplin. Perspectives on the Life and Art of the Great Comedian.
Richard . Ed(S): Schnickel
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Hardback. Editor(s): Schnickel, Richard. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: ASZB; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 549.
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
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
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566636827
SKU
V9781566636827
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Reviews for The Essential Chaplin. Perspectives on the Life and Art of the Great Comedian.
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
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
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
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