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Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema | 
| Author: Jeffrey Vance
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Category: Book
List Price: $50.00
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 195921
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.1
Dimensions (in): 12.1 x 9.3 x 1.3
ISBN: 0810945320
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.43028092
EAN: 9780810945326
ASIN: 0810945320
Publication Date: October 1, 2003
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Product Description
Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), an immortal of the silver screen, was perhaps the greatest comic genius the world has known. To this day his beloved creation the Tramp remains the most universal representation of humanity in the history of film. Noted film historian and silent-comedy authority Jeffrey Vance has drawn on exhaustive research and interviews with those who knew Chaplin to produce this definitive illustrated account. Composed with full access to the Chaplin family archives, the book chronicles his entire complex life story and his creative process in 500 photographs, many of them rare and recently discovered, newly printed from the original negatives especially for this volume. Describing the appeal of the Tramp, Chaplin wrote: "This fellow is many-sided-a tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure." The description also befits the artist himself, who endured a deprived childhood in late-Victorian London, numerous romances and four marriages, and political persecution during the anticommunist witch hunts, while leaving a legacy of 75 remarkable years of creative accomplishment. This third Abrams book by Jeffrey Vance on silent-film comedians coincides with the major international video/DVD release of newly restored Chaplin films.
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 A MUST January 3, 2008
Brigalow (Australia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you love Chaplin and I assume you do if you are reading this, you have to own this book. Beautifully illustrated with wonderful photographs and each part of Chaplins career is given the attention it deserves.
Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema February 17, 2007
C. Wilson
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I thought the photographs of Charlie Chaplin captured his hilarious personality. I learned many things I had not known about him in this very detailed book. Things about his several marriages, the money he made, the house he designed. His innerself being serious instead of his funny personality he potrayed. I actually got this book for a great friend of mine who dabbles in acting. It was very hard for me to part with it. I was happy he had a true love in his life and she felt the same way. I highly recommend it!
Amazing life of Chaplin September 24, 2005
E. Ozdag
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Charlie Chaplin apparently had one of the most intersting lives I've ever heard of. This book does a great job describing the good and the bad about Chaplin and his entire life and career in the cinematic spotlight. There are tons and tons of pictures. A must read for any Chaplin or silent film fan.
Magnificent June 24, 2005
Anyechka (Rensselaer, NY United States)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is a gorgeous volume that's so much more than just a mere coffeetable book. There are 500 photos, many of them never seen before, from both Chaplin's private life and stills from his many movies, both famous pictures and lesser-known ones. It goes to show that black and white photography can be just as stunning, if not more so, than color pictures. And though it's mainly a study of the shorts and features he made over his incredibly long career, offering insights into filming techniques, storylines, cast and crew, and dates, it also has a fair amount of biographical information as well, with chapters on events such as his exile, his politics, his four marriages, and his final years. One might personally disagree with a negative or positive assessment of a certain film or short (I for example don't find 'A Woman of Paris' to be the groundbreaking fantastic masterpiece many film critics hold it up as), but there's no denying Mr. Vance really did his homework. And I too find it confusing as to why some people find it a bad thing that Mr. Vance wrote this book and other books on comedic legends from the era through collaborating with the subject's family and friends and why it's supposed to be a bad thing that this is an authorised biography. Wouldn't you rather get a more objective picture that was created with help from people who actually knew the person instead of the shoddy negative untruthful hackjob that a lot of unauthorised biographies are?
 Charlie Chaplin June 1, 2005
Ika Pike
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Charlie Chaplin's Full Filled Life
Charles Spencer Chaplin was born in April 16, 1889 in London, England to talented parents who both did well in creative arts. Charlie got his parents ability to sing and act, but he later extended his list of talents to writing, dance, production, and even sports. At age ten, his father died and was forced to take care of his ill mother.
At early age he already joined the show business and joined a group called "The Eight Lancashire Lads". As he became more and more known, he sang a motion picture and became famous and as a celebrity. At the end of his career he ended up writing four books, learned how to play several instruments, and even composed and wrote several songs. Charlie lived a long, full life, and died on Christmas Day of 1977 to being eighty-eight years old.
I have a very high recommendation on this book and I would recommend it to anyone who wants to be inspired and can learned by his mistakes. If you want to be interested from the beginning to the end then I recommend this book.
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