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Call No: 81CHA MCC
Author: McCaffrey, Donald W. (ed.)
Source: US
Place: New Jersey
Publisher: Prentice Hall
PubDate: [1971]
PhysDes: 174 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
Series: Film Focus
Subject: TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; SENNETT, MACK; KID, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1921); GOLD RUSH, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1925); GENERAL, THE (US, Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, 1927); CIRCUS, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1928); CITY LIGHTS (US, Charles Chaplin, 1931); MODERN TIMES (US, Charles Chaplin, 1936); GREAT DICTATOR, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1940); MONSIEUR VERDOUX (US, Charles Chaplin, 1947); LIMELIGHT (US, Charles Chaplin, 1952)
ISBN: 131282077
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
Contents: Introduction - Donald W. McCaffrey -- CAREER -- A brief overall view - John Montgomery -- Creating the role of Dr. Body in Casey's Court Circus - Charlie Chaplin -- Acting-directing apprenticeship with Mack Sennett - Charlie Chaplin -- WORKING METHOD -- Development of the comic story and the Tramp character - Charlie Chaplin -- What people laugh at - Charlie Chaplin -- Max Linder's and Elsie Codd's views on the working method - Louis Delluc -- A rejection of the talkies - Charlie Chaplin -- ESSAYS -- The art of Charlie Chaplin - Minnie Maddern Fiske -- Is the Charlie Chaplin vogue passing? - Harcourt Farmer -- Everybody's Language - Winston Churchill -- A reaction to the praise given to Chaplin's artistry - George Jean Nathan -- An evaulation of Chaplin's silent comedy films, 1916-36 - Donald W. McCaffrey -- REVIEWS -- Impressions of two early comedy films - Louis Delluc -- An early detailed account of the action in The Pawnshop - Gilbert Seldes -- The Kid - Francis Hackett -- The Pilgrim - Robert E. Sherwood -- With the bunk left out - Charles W. Wood -- The idea in The Gold Rush: a study of Chaplin's use of the comic technique of pathos-humor - Timothy J. Lyons -- A comparison of The Gold Rush and The General - Gerald Mast -- The Circus - Alexander Bakshy -- City Lights and Modern Times: skirmishes with romance, pathos, and social significance - Donald W. McCaffrey -- The Great Dictator - Herman G. Weinberg -- Monsieur Verdoux - Roger Manvell -- The lineage of Limelight - Walter Kerr

Call No: 802.25(73) HOL
Author: Koszarski, Richard
Place: New York
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 1977
PhysDes: xvii, 426 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Subject: DIRECTORS. USA; WELLES, ORSON; LEWIN, ALBERT; VIDOR, KING; HUSTON, JOHN; ROSSEN, ROBERT; CAPRA, FRANK; JONES, CHUCK; WYLER, WILLIAM; RENOIR, JEAN; LANG, FRITZ; ZINNEMANN, FRED; MILESTONE, LEWIS; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; BROWN, CLARENCE; SIDNEY, GEORGE; BROOKS, RICHARD; DIETERLE, WILLIAM; FLEISCHER, RICHARD; VON STERNBERG, JOSEF; CURTIZ, MICHAEL; RAY, NICHOLAS; KAZAN, ELIA; WILDER, BILLY; LEROY, MERVYN; ALDRICH, ROBERT; KUBRICK, STANLEY; LOGAN, JOSHUA; STURGES, JOHN; KING, HENRY; MANN, ANTHONY; FULLER, SAMUEL; FRANKENHEIMER, JOHN; KELLY, GENE; PENN, ARTHUR; SAKS, GENE; Lupino, Ida; DMYTRYK, EDWARD; CORMAN, ROGER; FRIEDKIN, WILLIAM; RITCHIE, MICHAEL; GRINDE, NICK; PICHEL, IRVING; SEATON, GEORGE; BENEDEK, LASLO; KOSTER, HENRY; OBOLER, ARCH; SANDERS, TERRY; SIODMAK, ROBERT; MARTON, ANDREW; DEATH OF A SALESMAN (US, Laslo Benedek, 1951); FACE IN THE CROWD, A (US, Elia Kazan, 1957); BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967); SMILE (US, Michael Ritchie, 1975); MONSIEUR VERDOUX (US, Charles Chaplin, 1947); BEN HUR (US, William Wyler, 1959)
Notes: Includes index
ISBN: 0195022173 : $15.00; 0195022181(pbk. :) $4.95
LON: 851041

Call No: 744 ROF
Author: Roffman, Peter, 1950; Purdy, Jim,
Place: Bloomington
Publisher: Indiana University Press
PubDate: 1981
PhysDes: x, 364 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm
Subject: SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS. USA; DEPRESSION IN FILMS; DRUGS IN FILMS; MADNESS IN FILMS; BAD GUYS; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA; FALLEN WOMEN IN FILMS; DELINQUENTS IN FILMS; JEWS IN FILMS; BLACKS IN FILMS. USA; COMMUNISM AND THE CINEMA. USA; BLACKLISTING. USA; JOURNALISTS IN FILMS; POLITICAL PERSONALITIES IN FILMS; POPULISM AND THE CINEMA. USA; RACIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS; RURAL LIFE IN FILMS; WARNER BROS.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; LANG, FRITZ; BORZAGE, FRANK; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; GARFIELD, JOHN; CAPRA, FRANK; VIDOR, KING; BLACK LEGION (US, Archie L. Mayo, 1936); CABIN IN THE COTTON, THE (US, Michael Curtiz, 1932); DEAD END (US, William Wyler, 1937); FORCE OF EVIL (US, Abraham Polonsky, 1948); GABRIEL OVER THE WHITE HOUSE (US, Gregory La Cava, 1933); STATE'S ATTORNEY (US, George Archainbaud, 1932); SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (US, Preston Sturges, 1942); THEY WON'T FORGET (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1937); THREE COMRADES (US, Frank Borzage, 1938); GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT (US, Elia Kazan, 1947); I WAS A COMMUNIST FOR THE F.B.I. (US, Gordon Douglas, 1951); LAWLESS, THE (US, Joseph Losey, 1950); LAWYER MAN (US, Wilhelm Dieterle, 1932); LITTLE MAN, WHAT NOW? (US, Frank Borzage, 1934); MASSACRE (US, Alan Crosland, 1933); MEET JOHN DOE (US, Frank Capra, 1941); MOUTHPIECE, THE (US, James Flood & Elliott Nugent, 1932); OUR DAILY BREAD (US, King Vidor, 1934); PINKY (US, Elia Kazan, 1949); PRESIDENT VANISHES, THE (US, William Wellman, 1934); RIFFRAFF (US, J. Walter Ruben, 1936); [MISTER] MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (US, Frank Capra, 1936); [MISTER] MR SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (US, Frank Capra, 1939); MODERN TIMES (US, Charles Chaplin, 1936); MONSIEUR VERDOUX (US, Charles Chaplin, 1947); MORTAL STORM, THE (US, Frank Borzage, 1940); MY MAN GODFREY (US, Gregory La Cava, 1936); ON THE WATERFRONT (US, Elia Kazan, 1954); BODY AND SOUL (US, Robert Rossen, 1947); GRAPES OF WRATH, THE (US, John Ford, 1940); GREAT DICTATOR, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1940); HEROES FOR SALE (US, William A. Wellman, 1933); I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1932); IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946); SALT OF THE EARTH (US, Herbert J. Biberman, 1954); YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE (US, Fritz Lang, 1937)
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 319-329; Filmography: p. 331-351
ISBN: 0253127076; 0253202612 (pbk.)
LON: 1763505

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: MONSIEUR VERDOUX (US, Charles Chaplin, 1947)

Call No: 67(04) REN
Author: Bellone, Julius, comp
Place: [New York]
Publisher: Collier Books
PubDate: [1970]
PhysDes: xi, 366 p. illus. 21 cm
Subject: Ray, Satyajit; AVVENTURA, L' (IT/FR, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960); BLOWUP (UK/IT, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966); BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967); CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941); [DOCTOR] DR STRANGELOVE: OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1964); DOLCE VITA, LA (FR/IT, Federico Fellini, 1960); FARREBIQUE (FR, Georges Rouquier, 1945); GERTRUD (DK, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1964); HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR (FR/JA, Alain Resnias, 1959); ANNEE DERNIERE A MARIENBAD, L' (FR, Alain Resnais, 1961); LOLA (FR/IT, Jacques Demy, 1961); MASCULIN-FEMININ (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1966); ORDET (DK, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1955); RASHOMON (JA, Akira Kurosawa, 1950); DESERTO ROSSO, IL (IT/FR, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964); SJUNDE INSEGLET, DET (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1957); STRADA, LA (IT, Federico Fellini, 1954); UGETSU MONOGATARI (JA, Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953); UMBERTO D. (IT, Vittorio De Sica, 1952); JUNGFRAUENMASCHINE, DIE (GW, Monika Treut, 1989); VIRIDIANA (SP/MX, Luis Bunuel, 1961); TYSTNADEN (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1963); SERVANT, THE (UK, Joseph Losey, 1963); THIS SPORTING LIFE (UK, Lindsay Anderson, 1963); KUMONOSU-JO (JA, Akira Kurosawa, 1957); THRONE OF BLOOD (JA, Akira Kurosawa, 1957); TIREZ SUR LE PIANISTE (FR, Francois Truffaut, 1960); FROKEN JULIE (SW, Alf Sjoberg, 1950); MONSIEUR VERDOUX (US, Charles Chaplin, 1947); MARNIE (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1964); AU HASARD, BALTHAZAR (FR/SW, Robert Bresson, 1966); SUNA NO ONNA (JA, Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)
Notes: Bibliography: p. [349]-353
LON: 102599

Call No: 62 KRA
Author: Kracauer, Siegfried
Place: New York
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 1965
PhysDes: xix, 364 p. ill., 20 cm.
Subject: ACTORS; ADAPTATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS; THEORY; AGEE, JAMES; ALEXANDROV, GROGORIJ; ANGER, KENNETH; ANSTEY, EDGAR; ARNHEIM, RUDOLF; ASTAIRE, FRED; BALAZS, BELA; BENJAMIN, WALTER; BERGMAN, INGMAR; BOGART, HUMPHREY; BRAKHAGE, STAN; BRANDO, MARLON; BUNUEL, LUIS; CAGNEY, JAMES; CAPRA, FRANK; CASTELLANI, RENATO; CAVALCANTI, ALBERTO; CHANEY, LON; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; CLAIR, RENE; CLEMENT, RENE; CLOUZOT, HENRI-GEORGES; COCTEAU, JEAN; DALI, SALVADOR; DE FILIPPO, EDUARDO; DEMILLE, CECIL B.; DE SICA, VITTORIO; DISNEY, WALT; DOVZENKO, ALEKSANDR; DREYER, CARL TH.; DUCHAMP, MARCEL; DUVIVIER, JULIEN; ELTON, ARTHUR; ENGEL, MORRIS; EPSTEIN, JEAN; FELLINI, FEDERICO; FEUILLADE, LOUIS; FEYDER, JACQUES; FISCHINGER, OSKAR; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; FORD, JOHN; FRANJU, GEORGES; FREUD, SIGMUND; GANCE, ABEL; GARNETT, GALE; GIDE, ANDRE; GREENE, GRAHAM; GRIERSON, JOHN; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; GRIFFITHS, RICHARD; GUITRY, SACHA; HARRINGTON, CURTIS; HILL, DAVID; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; WACHSFIGURENKABINETT, DAS (G, Paul Leni, 1924); SMULTRONSTALLET (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1957); VITELLONI, I (IT, Federico Fellini, 1953); VAMPYR : DER TRAUM DES ALLEN GRAY (G/FR, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1932); VARIETE (G, E.A. Dupont, 1925); VALLEY TOWN - A STUDY OF MACHINES AND MEN (US, Willard Van Dyke, 1940); UMBERTO D. (IT, Vittorio De Sica, 1952); TRIUMPH DES WILLENS (G, Leni Riefenstahl, 1935); THIRD MAN, THE (UK, Carol Reed, 1949); OKTIABR (UR, Sergei M. Eisenstein, 1928); TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE (US, Cecil B. DeMille, 1956); SYMPHONIE PASTORALE, LA (FR, Jean Delannoy, 1946); SWING TIME (US, George Stevens, 1936); STRADA, LA (IT, Federico Fellini, 1954); ROMAN D'UN TRICHEUR, LE (FR, Sacha Guitry, 1936); MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH, A (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1946); SPIONE (G, Fritz Lang, 1928); SPELLBOUND (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1945); SOUS LES TOITS DE PARIS (FR, Rene Clair, 1930); SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (US, David Hand, 1937); SMILING LIEUTENANT, THE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1931); SHANE (US, George Stevens, 1953); SJUNDE INSEGLET, DET (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1957); GEHEIMNISSE EINER SEELE (G, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1926); SCARFACE (US, Howard Hawks, 1932); SANG DES BETES, LE (FR, Georges Franju,1949); SAN FRANCISCO (US, W.S. Van Dyke, 1936); ROUE, LA (FR, Abel Gance, 1922); ROMEO I DZULETTA (UR, Lev Arnstam & Leonid Lavrovskij, 1954); RICHARD III (UK, Laurence Olivier, 1955); REGLE DU JEU, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1939); RED SHOES, THE (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1948); RASHOMON (JA, Akira Kurosawa, 1950); REGEN (NE, Joris Ivens, 1929); PYGMALION (UK, Anthony Asquith & Leslie Howard, 1938); PLACE IN THE SUN, A (US, George Stevens, 1951); PATHER PANCHALI (II, Satyajit Ray, 1955); PASSION DE JEANNE D'ARC, LA (FR, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1928); PARIS 1900 (FR, Nicole Vedres, 1948); PARADINE CASE, THE (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1947); OTELLO (UR, Sergej Jutkevic, 1956); ON THE WATERFRONT (US, Elia Kazan, 1954); OLVIDADOS, LOS (MX, Luis Bunuel, 1951); OF MEN AND MUSIC (US, Irving Reis, 1950); NOSFERATU - EINE SYMPHONIE DES GRAUENS (G, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1922); NIGHT MAIL (UK, Basil Wright & Harry Watt, 1936); NIGHT AT THE OPERA, A (US, Sam Wood, 1935); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); MOULIN ROUGE (UK, E.A. Dupont, 1928); MONSIEUR VERDOUX (US, Charles Chaplin, 1947); MODERN TIMES (US, Charles Chaplin, 1936); MOBY DICK (UK, John Huston, 1956); MOANA (US, Robert Flaherty, 1926); MILLION, LE (FR, Rene Clair, 1931); METROPOLIS (GG, Fritz Lang, 1927); MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (US, Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid, 1943); MENSCHEN AM SONNTAG (G, Robert Siodmak & Edgar G. Ulmer, 1929); MARTY (US, Delbert Mann, 1954); MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, THE (UK, Alfred Hitchcock, 1936); MAJOR BARBARA (UK, Gabriel Pascal, 1941); MADAME BOVARY (FR, Claude Chabrol, 1991); MACBETH (US, Orson Welles, 1948); M (G, Fritz Lang, 1931); LOVE PARADE, THE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1929); LIMELIGHT (US, Charles Chaplin, 1952); LIFEBOAT (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1944); OSTATNI ETAP (PL, Wanda Jakubowska, 1948); LADY IN THE LAKE (US, Robert Montgomery, 1946); KID, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1921); JULIUS CAESAR (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1953); JAZZ SINGER, THE (US, Alan Crosland, 1927); IVAN GROZNY [IVAN THE TERRIBLE] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, pt.1:1945, pt.2:1958[prod.1946]); IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946); INVISIBLE MAN, THE (US, James Whale, 1933); INTOLERANCE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1916); HUMAN DESIRE (US, Fritz Lang, 1954); HOUSING PROBLEMS (UK, Edgar Anstey & Arthur Elton, 1935); HOTEL DES INVALIDES (FR, Georges Franju, 1952); HIGH NOON (US, Fred Zinnemann, 1952); HENRY V (UK, Laurence Olivier, 1944); HEIRESS, THE (US, William Wyler, 1949); HATFUL OF RAIN, A (US, Fred Zinnemann, 1957); HAMLET (UK, Laurence Olivier, 1948); HALLELUJAH! (US, King Vidor, 1929); GREED (US, Erich von Stroheim, 1925); GREAT EXPECTATIONS (UK, David Lean, 1946); GRAPES OF WRATH, THE (US, John Ford, 1940); GRANDE ILLUSION, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1937); GOLD RUSH, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1925); ORO DI NAPOLI, L' (IT, Vittorio De Sica, 1954); GOLD OF NAPLES (IT, Vittorio De Sica, 1954); GLASS MENAGERIE, THE (US, Irving Rapper, 1950); VORMITTAGSSPUK (G, Hans Richter, 1928); GHOST GOES WEST, THE (UK, Rene Clair, 1935); GHOST AND MRS. MUIR, THE (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1947); GERVAISE (FR, Rene Clement, 1956); JIGOKUMON (JA, Teinosuke kinugasa, 1953); FURY (US, Fritz Lang, 1936); FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE, THE (US, Vincente Minnelli, 1962); FARREBIQUE (FR, Georges Rouquier, 1945); FANTASIA (US, Walt Disney, 1940); ZEMLJA (UR, Alexksandr Dovzenko, 1930); JOURNAL D'UN CURE DE CAMPAGNE (FR, Robert Bresson, 1951); DESTRY RIDES AGAIN (US, George Marshall, 1939); MUDE TOD, DER (G, Fritz Lang, 1921); DEATH OF A SALESMAN (US, Laslo Benedek, 1951); DEAD OF NIGHT (UK, Alberto Cavalcanti & Charles Crichton & Basil Dearden & Robert Hamer, 1945); CONDAMNE A MORT S`EST ECHAPPE, UN (FR, Robert Bresson, 1956); CITY LIGHTS (US, Charles Chaplin, 1931); CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941); CINDERELLA (US, Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Laske & Clyde Geronomi, 1950); CHIEN ANDALOU, UN (FR, Luis Bunuel, 1928); BROKEN BLOSSOMS (US, David Wark Griffith, 1919); BROADWAY MELODY OF 1938 (US, Norman Taurog, 1940); BRIEF ENCOUNTER (UK, David Lean, 1945); BOOMERANG (US, Elia Kazan, 1947); SANG D'UN POETE, LE (FR, Jean Cocteau, 1932); BLACKMAIL (UK, Alfred Hitchcock, 1929); BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); LADRI DI BICICLETTE (IT, Vittorio De Sica, 1949); BEZZERIDES, A.I.; BEN HUR (US, Fred Niblo, 1925); BAMBI (US, David Hand, 1942); BALLET MECANIQUE, LE (FR, Fernand Leger, 1924); BACK STREET (US, John M. Stahl, 1932); ATALANTE, L' (FR, Jean Vigo, 1934); A PROPOS DE NICE (FR, Jean Vigo, 1930); APARAJITO (II, Satyajit Ray, 1957); ANNA CHRISTIE (US, Clarence Brown, 1930); ANATOMY OF A MURDER (US, Otto Preminger, 1959); AMERICAN TRAGEDY, AN (Josef von Sternberg, 1931); ALEKSANDR NEVSKI (UR, Sergei M. Eisenstein, 1938); BROADWAY MELODY, THE (US, Harry Beaumont, 1929); LETZIE MANN, DER (G, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1924)
Notes: Frist published 1960; Previously published as: Nature of films. England : Dobson ;1965; Includes bilbiograpy: p. 351-364; Includes index
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