Charlie Chaplin, Director

by Donna Kornhaber

Charlie Chaplin was one of the cinema's consummate comic performers, yet he has long been criticized as a lackluster film director. In this groundbreaking work--the first to analyze Chaplin's directorial style--Donna Kornhaber radically recasts his status as a filmmaker. Spanning Chaplin's career, Kornhaber discovers a sophisticated "Chaplinesque" visual style that draws from early cinema and slapstick and stands markedly apart from later, "classical"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810129523
• ISBN13: 9780810129528
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"