Chaplin and American Culture: The Evolution of a Star Image

by Charles J. Maland

Book Overview

Charles Maland focuses on the cultural sources of the on-and-off, love-hate affair between Chaplin and the American public that was perhaps the stormiest in American stardom.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691028605
• ISBN13: 9780691028606
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

An excellent achievement!

Maland offers a very interesting and well-researched perspective in this ambitious project. He does not give us a strait-forward biography but rather shows how profoundly Chaplin affected American Culture and vice-versa. In framing his analysis, Maland references movie reviews, the press, promotional materials released by the studios, and (most informatively) Chaplin's movies. I recommend this book not only to those interested in Charlie Chaplin, but also to those wanting to learn more about the culture of fear and propaganda that prevailed before and after World War II.