Chaplin Penguin Books

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David Robinson's definitive and monumental biography of Charlie Chaplin, the greatest icon in the history of cinema, who lived one of the most dramatic rags to riches stories ever told. Chaplin's life was marked by extraordinary contrasts: the child of London slums who became a multimillionaire; the on-screen clown who was a driven perfectionist behind the camera; the adulated star who publicly fell from grace after personal and political scandal. This engrossing and definitive work, written with full access to Chaplin's archives, tells the whole story of a brilliant, complex man. David Robinson is a celebrated film critic and historian who wrote for The Times and the Financial Times for several decades. His many books include World Cinema, Hollywood in the Twenties and Buster Keaton. "A marvellous book ...unlikely ever to be surpassed". (Spectator). "I cannot imagine how anyone could write a better book on the great complex subject ...movingly entertaining, awesomely thorough and profoundly respectful". (Sunday Telegraph). "One of the great cinema books; a labour of love and a splendid achievement". (Variety)."One of those addictive biographies in which you start by looking in the index for items that interest you ...and as dawn breaks you're reading the book from cover to cover". (Financial Times).

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Early Years of Charlie Chaplin Pen & Sword Books Ltd

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Who Was Charlie Chaplin? Penguin Books

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Charlie Chaplin sang on a London stage for the first time at the age of five. Performing proved to be his salvation, providing a way out of a life of hardship and poverty. Success came early and made Chaplin one of the best loved people in the United States until the McCarthy witch hunts drove Chaplin from his adopted country.

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Cary Grant Taschen GmbH

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Mr. Charming

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Opis - Sztywna, kolorowa podstawka pod kalendarz zdzierak. Mix wzorów. Nazwa - Podstawka pod kalendarz zdzierak Autor - Praca zbiorowa Oprawa - Twarda Wydawca - Avanti Kod ISBN - 5901769620704 Kod EAN - 5901769620704 Rok wydania - 2014 Język - polski Format - 12.9x17.4 Podatek VAT - 23% Premiera - 2014-08-20

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Florian Illies - 1913 Profile Books

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A witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched biographical fragments, 1913 is an intimate vision of a world that is about to change forever. Kafka falls in love; Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet; Coco Chanel opens her first boutique; Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract. 1913 is an irreverent but poignant portrait of Europe on the brink of war, now in paperback.

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Film As Film Hachette Books

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Here at last is an introduction to film theory and its history without the jargon. Noted film scholar V. F. Perkins presents criteria for expanding our understanding and enjoyment of movies. He employs common sense words like balance, coherence, significance, and satisfaction to develop his insightful support of the subtle approach and of the unobtrusive director. Readers will learn why a scene from the humbler movie Carmen Jones is a deeper realization of filmmaking than the bravura lion sequence in the classic Battleship Potemkin. Along the way Perkins invites readers to re-experience with clarity, directness, and simplicity other famous scenes by directors like Hitchcock, Eisenstein, and Chaplin. Perkins examines the origins of movies and embraces their use of both realism and magic, their ability to record as well as to create. In the process he seeks to discover the synthesis between these opposing elements. With the delight of the fan and the perception of the critic, Perkins advances a film theory, based on the work of Bazin and other early film theorists, that is rich with suggestion for debate and further pursuit.Sit beside Perkins as he reacquaints you with cinema, heightens your awareness, deepens your pleasure, and increases your return every time you invest in a movie ticket.

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American Cinema Perseus Books

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The auteur theory, of which film criticAndrew Sarris was the leading American proponent, holds that artistry in cinema can be largely attributed to film directors, who, while often working against the strictures of studios, producers, and scriptwriters, manage to infuse each film in their oeuvre with their personal style. Sarris's The American Cinema, the bible of auteur studies, is a history of American film in the form of a lively guide to the work of two hundred film directors, from Griffith, Chaplin, and von Sternberg to Mike Nichols, Stanley Kubrick, and Jerry Lewis. In addition, the book includes a chronology of the most important American films, an alphabetical list of over 6000 films with their directors and years of release, and the seminal essays "Toward a Theory of Film History" and "The Auteur Theory Revisited." Over twenty-five years after its initial publication, The American Cinema remains perhaps the most influential book ever written on the subject.

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Body and its Symbolism Quest Books,U.S.

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This intricate and profound exploration of Kabbalistic symbolism as applied to the human body is a classic in French esoteric circles. It is the life work of psychotherapist Annick de Souzenelle, whose tremendous depth of thought has been partially insp

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Name Above The Title Hachette Books

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Although Frank Capra (1897--1991) is best known as the director of It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, You Can't Take It with You, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Arsenic and Old Lace, and It's a Wonderful Life, he was also an award-winning documentary filmmaker as well as a behind-the-scene force in the Director's Guild, the Motion Picture Academy, and the Producer's Guild. He worked with or knew socially everyone in the movie business from Mack Sennett, Chaplin, and Keaton in the silent era through the illustrious names of the golden age. He directed Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Jean Harlow, Claudette Colbert, Bette Davis, and others. Reading his autobiography is like having Capra sitting in your living room, regaling you with his anecdotes. In The Name Above the Title he reveals the deeply personal story of how, despite winning six Academy Awards, he struggled throughout his life against the glamors, vagaries, and frustrations of Hollywood for the creative freedom to make some of the most memorable films of all time.

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American Silent Film Hachette Books

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Praised as the "best modern survey of the silent period" (New Republic), this indispensable history tells you everything you need to know about American silent film, from the nickelodeons in the early 1900s to the birth of the first "talkies" in the late 1920s. The author provides vivid descriptions of classic pictures such as The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, Sunrise, The Covered Wagon, and Greed, and lucidly discusses their technical and artistic merits and weaknesses. He pays tribute to acknowledged masters like D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and Lillian and Dorothy Gish, but he also gives ample attention to previously neglected yet equally gifted actors and directors. In addition, the book covers individual genres, such as the comedy, western gangster, and spectacle, and explores such essential but little-understood subjects as art direction, production design, lighting and camera techniques, and the art of the subtitle. Intended for all scholars, students, and lovers of film, this fascinating book, which features over 150 film stills, provides a rich and comprehensive overview of this unforgettable era in film history.

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Journey Round My Skull The New York Review of Books, Inc

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"Karinthy's book is, to my mind, a masterpiece. We are inundated now with medical memoirs, both biographical and autobiographical-the entire genre has exploded in the last twenty years. Yet even though the technology may have changed, the human experience has not, and "Journey Around My Skull," the first autobiographical description of a journey inside the brain, remains one of the very best." --Oliver Sacks (from the Introduction) "The first patient's-eye-view account of a brain operation in medical history...remarkable." -"Time" "The "London Evening Standard" called "A Journey Round My Skull,.".an extraordinary book. "The New Statesman" and "Nation" called it a very remarkable book. "The Spectator" an unusual and extremely interesting book. The "Glasgow Herald "a terrible and marvelous book. "The British Medical Journal" a book of the highest value. This chorus of praise is not too strong..."A Journey Round My Skull" is a document that few other men would have written and that no reader will easily forget." -"The New York Times" "Here is a book of surpassing interest and power...Written with utmost clarity and candor, Karinthy's account of his illness and operation is a compelling, unique achievement which needs no artifice...the patient's narrative holds the reader in a spell." -"Los Angeles Times" "Pirandello could not have written it better...a triumph of writing, a very remarkable book." -"The New Statesman" "It would be impossible to read anything so moving, so frightening or so exciting...a terrible and marvelous book. It will be treasured by the courageous reader for its beauty, its poetry and its revelation of an experience that happily comes to few men."-"John O'London's Weekly" "A remarkable subject, and the book is as remarkable as its subject. Not a touch of morbidity adheres to the story...indeed an extraordinary book." -"The Evening Standard" "This unusual and extremely interesting book...as well as being a brilliantly imaginative record of an illness, the book is also a very revealing autobiography."-"The Spectator" "Karinthy was a magnificent parodist and a ruthless but never pompous social critic. His poetry was a mixture of carefully polished, effectively classicist and broadly-rolling, Whitmanesque verse." -Adam Makkai "Karinthy gives a minute description of his 'skull, ' a description that covers both the physical and psychological...but he also incorporates his readings (Thomas Mann's "Joseph and his Brethern," Scott's account of his journeys to the South Pole, Jules Verne's "Michel Strogoff") and a variety of philosophical musings...What a pleasure to sit down with a witty, urbane, eminently well educated human being, to bask in his presence as he recounts to you something of vital importance to him. We could do with a few more Karinthys nowadays." -"The Hungarian Quarterly" A "brilliant humorist and prose-writer." -"The Independent" [UK] "[Karinthy] possesses the sharp and biting satire of Voltaire; the provocative doubt of Shaw; the poetic fantasy of Maeterlinck. Karinthy is a universal literary genius: playwright, humorist, poet, novelist, critic, essayist, literary caricaturist, etc...He has that rare ability of our own Charlie Chaplin, in that whatever he attempts to do, he can make us feel that he is a genius." -"Los Angeles Times" "This book is both a human document and a piece ofauthentic literature, not devoid of humor." -"The New York Times"

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