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| Preface | |
| Chaplin and the resistance to "talkies" | p. 3 |
| Pretending the world is funny : Charlie Chaplin's job as the prototype comic personality | p. 11 |
| Charles Chaplin and the Jewish world | p. 17 |
| The Chaplin reception in Germany | p. 25 |
| Charles Chaplin en compagnie de Schopenhauer | p. 35 |
| Les implications de la technique chaplinesque du gag | p. 41 |
| Moliere, Chaplin : structures comiques | p. 49 |
| Chaplin, la matiere et l'allegement | p. 57 |
| Charles Chaplin : an embodiment of paradox (le comique et la terreur) | p. 61 |
| Charlie Chaplin or the "vaudeville dispossessed" | p. 69 |
| Chaplin's short films : between narration and monstration | p. 77 |
| Gag and narration in Chaplin's cinema at the transition from short to full-length movies (1918-1923) | p. 83 |
| Charlie in the Far North : the tall tale element in The Gold Rush (1925) | p. 89 |
| Comedy and pathos in City Lights | p. 97 |
| Modern Times and the American culture of the 1930's | p. 103 |
| Modern Times in the light of Adorno and Beckett | p. 119 |
| The social function of humor in Charles Chaplin's movies | p. 125 |
| Chaplin : the little Jew and The Great Dictator | p. 131 |
| Chaplin's film pioneer status in black or macabre humor | p. 139 |
| Les films "mineurs" de Chaplin | p. 151 |
| Charlie Chaplin and the comic strips | p. 161 |
| La representation de Charlot dans deux magazines pour enfants : Mon journal (1881-1925) et Cri-cri (1911-1937) | p. 171 |
| Le dernier gag de Chaplin | p. 181 |
| Chaplin et Charlot | p. 187 |
| Charlot et son double | p. 195 |
| Charlot syllepse : elements pour une theorie du gag | p. 201 |
| Le point de vue de Gulliver | p. 209 |
| La Ruee vers l'Or | p. 211 |
| Charles Chaplin, poete comique | p. 215 |
| Postscript | p. 219 |
| Postface | p. 221 |
| Books on and by Chaplin: an international bibliography | p. 227 |
| Abstracts | p. 341 |
| Contributors | p. 353 |
| Charles Chaplin: Filmography | p. 361 |
| Illustrations | p. [s.n.] |
| Index rerum | p. 371 |
| Index nominum | p. 380 |
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ISBN: 9783110126006
ISBN-10: 3110126001
Series: Approaches to Semiotics
Audience:
Professional
For Ages: 22+ years old
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
, French
Number Of Pages: 401
Published: 1991
Country of Publication: DE
Dimensions (cm): 23.39 x 15.6
x 3.18
Weight (kg): 0.78
