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Record Nr.

UNINA9910150446003321

Autore

Haven Lisa Stein

Titolo

Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp in America, 1947–77 / / by Lisa Stein Haven

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

3-319-40478-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIV, 300 p. 25 illus.)

Disciplina

791.4309

Soggetti

Motion pictures—History

United States—Study and teaching

Motion pictures—Great Britain

Ethnology—Europe

America—Literatures

Film History

American Culture

British Cinema and TV

British Culture

North American Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- .Introduction: The Death of the Little Tramp and Chaplin in the Aftermath -- .Chapter 1: Bohemian Writers and the Resurrection of the Little Tramp -- .Chapter 2: The Beat Chaplinists -- .Chapter 3: Seeing Charlie: Legal and Illegal Chaplin Screenings -- .Chapter 4: Narrativizing Charlie in Print and Film -- .Chapter 5: Selling Charlie -- .Epilogue: The Little Tramp’s Continuing Longevity, post-1977.

Sommario/riassunto

This book focuses on the re-invigoration of Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp persona in America from the point at which Chaplin reached the acme of his disfavor in the States, promoted by the media, through his departure from America forever in 1952, and ending with his death in Switzerland in 1977. By considering factions of America as diverse as 8mm film collectors, Beat poets and writers and readers of Chaplin biographies, this cultural study determines conclusively that Chaplin’s



Little Tramp never died, but in fact experienced a resurgence, which began slowly even before 1950 and was wholly in effect by 1965 and then confirmed by 1972, the year in which Chaplin returned to the United States for the final time, to receive accolades in both New York and Los Angeles, where he received an Oscar for a lifetime of achievement in film.