Charlie Chaplin Movie Poster Book

Charlie Chaplin Movie Poster Book

Author: Jake Lenburg

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-01-18

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 9781507621776

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He has been called "arguably the single most important artist produced by the cinema, certainly its most extraordinary performer and probably still its most universal icon" For moviegoers, he was simply, Charlie Chaplin, who won their hearts and made them split their sides in laughter when he portrayed the Little Tramp, his most memorable iconic onscreen character in silent films. Chaplin wasn't only the Little Tramp. He was a comic genius whom produced, directed and wrote most of his, even later composing the music for him. He was the total filmmaker. The “Charlie Chaplin Movie Poster Book” captures the imagination and genius of one of the most important figures of the film industry, presenting, for the first time, more than 50 vintage movie posters in print, all in full color. It represents a period of filmmaking which will never be duplicated. The book is divided into eight sections. The first five are by the studios or distribution companies, in chronilogical order: Keystone, Essanay, Mutual, First National, United Artists. Then there are British Productions, Foreign Releases and Compilation Films. The “Charlie Chaplin Movie Poster Book” is a fitting tribute to a true film pioneer, a legend, whose timeless films will never fade, but continue to entertain and inspire audiences for generations to come.


The Charlie Chaplin Book

The Charlie Chaplin Book

Author: Robert Keene Thompson

Publisher: Courier Dover Publications

Published: 2016-07-20

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 0486815110

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Expert novelizations of ten early Chaplin films include The Bank, A Woman, Work, The Champion, His New Job, By the Sea, A Night Out, The Tramp, In the Park, and A Jitney Elopement.


Charlie Chaplin, Director

Charlie Chaplin, Director

Author: Donna Kornhaber

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2014-03-05

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 0810129523

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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" stylistic conventions. His is a manner of filmmaking that values space over time and simultaneity over sequence, crafting narrative and meaning through careful arrangement within the frame rather than cuts between frames. Opening up aesthetic possibilities beyond the typical boundaries of the classical Hollywood film, Chaplin’s filmmaking would profoundly influence directors from Fellini to Truffaut. To view Chaplin seriously as a director is to re-understand him as an artist and to reconsider the nature and breadth of his legacy.


A Century of Movie Posters

A Century of Movie Posters

Author: Emily King

Publisher: Mitchell Beazley

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780764155994

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Film buffs, graphic designers, and art students will relish this beautifully produced and strikingly illustrated volume. Arranged in roughly chronological order, it brings together movie posters from around the world, starting with Charlie Chaplin film ads and the Russian Revolutionary movie posters of the 1910s, then spanning the century to show posters publicizing hits of the 1990s, including The Silence of the Lambs, Spike Lee films, and many more. The bookï¿1/2s sections focus on renowned individual designers, directors, movies, and genres. Important poster designers such as Saul Bass, Jan Lenica, and Juan Gatti receive particular attention, as do great directors who had strong opinions about how their films should be represented. Among the latter are Alfred Hitchcock, Jean-Luc Godard, and Otto Preminger. All major film genres are representedï¿1/2musicals, Kung Fu movies, films noir, westerns (including so-called ï¿1/2spaghetti westernsï¿1/2 filmed in Italy), science fiction classics, and others. Readers are treated to examples of movie posters not only from the United States, Britain, and France, but also to previously unpublished examples from countries as diverse as Poland, China, and Cuba. For instance, fans of Orson Welles might be surprised to see the previously unpublished Italian poster advertising Citizen Kane under its Italian title, Quarto Potere (The Fourth Estate). This handsome volume will be valued by graphic designers, poster collectors, and anyone sharing the popular passion for cinema.


Movie Poster

Movie Poster

Author: Emily King

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9781845332778

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This volume is structured chronologically with chapters covering four key eras in the history of movies and illustrates the important movie posters of each time focusing on influential designers, directors, movies and genres.


Selling the Movie

Selling the Movie

Author: Ian Haydn Smith

Publisher: White Lion Publishing

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 0711240248

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As long as there have been movies, there have been posters selling films to audiences. Posters came into existence just decades before the inception of film, and as movies became a universal medium of entertainment, posters likewise became a ubiquitous form of advertising. At first, movie posters suggested a film's theme, from adventure and romance to thrills and spine-tingling horror. Then, with the ascendancy of the film star, posters began to sell icons and lifestyles, nowhere more so than in Hollywood. But every country producing films used posters to sell their product. Selling the Movie: The Art of the Film Poster charts the history of the movie poster from both a creative and a commercial perspective. It includes sections focusing on poster artists, the development of styles, the influence of politics and ideology, and how commerce played a role in the film poster's development. The book is richly illustrated with poster art from many countries and all eras of filmmaking. From creating the brand of Charlie Chaplin's tramp and marketing the elusive mystique of Greta Garbo, to the history of the blockbuster, the changing nature of graphic design by the decade, and the role of the poster in the digital age, Selling the Movie is an entertaining and enthralling journey through cinema, art, and the business of attracting audiences to the box office.


Early Charlie Chaplin

Early Charlie Chaplin

Author: James L. Neibaur

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 0810882426

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Before making a name for himself as an undisputed master of cinema, Charlie Chaplin first developed his acting, writing, and directing skills at Keystone Studios. This book examines each of these films, assessing the important early work of a comedian who became a timeless icon.


Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin

Author: Georgia Hale

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 1999-08-25

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1461657377

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Many remember Charlie Chaplin's comic masterpiece, The Gold Rush, as the finest blend of comedy and farce ever brought to the screen. Far fewer remember its heroine, Georgia Hale (1900-1985). Seventy years after the film's appearance, Heather Kiernan brings Georgia Hale back to life in this edition of her hitherto unpublished memoirs. Research work embodied in her perceptive introduction clears up many uncertainties about Hale's life and provides an outline of her most significant years. Hale's own chief purpose was to describe her long and close relationship with Chaplin and his dual personality, which made the relationship at times a love-hate one. As Chaplin's constant companion during the years 1928-1931, she became a part of his social circle, meeting people as diverse as Marion Davies, Sergei Eisenstein, Ralph Barton, and Albert Einstein. The memoir effectively ends with Chaplin's marriage in June 1943 to Oona O'Neill. This unique book contains illustrations from the Chaplin archive, most of which are published here for the first time.


Chinese Movie Magazines

Chinese Movie Magazines

Author: Paul Fonoroff

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2018-09-25

Total Pages: 11

ISBN-13: 0520300483

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Showcasing an exotic, eclectic, and rare array of covers from more than five hundred movie publications from a glamorous bygone age, Chinese Movie Magazines sheds fresh light on China’s film industry during a transformative period of its history. Expertly curated by collector and Chinese cinema specialist Paul Fonoroff, this volume provides insightful commentary relating the magazines to the times in which they were created, embracing everything from cinematic trends to politics and world events, along with gossip, fashion, and pop culture. The cover designs reflected the diverse contents of the publications, ranging from sophisticated Art Deco drawings by acclaimed artists to glamorous photos of top Chinese and Hollywood celebrities, including Ruan Lingyu, Butterfly Wu, Ingrid Bergman, and Shirley Temple. Organized thematically within a chronological structure, this visually extraordinary volume includes many rare illustrations from the Paul Kendel Fonoroff Collection in Berkeley’s C.V. Starr East Asian Library, the largest collection of Eastern movie memorabilia outside China.


The Charlie Chaplin Archives

The Charlie Chaplin Archives

Author: Paul Duncan

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783836538435

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"This book is a visual and oral history, telling the story of Chaplin's pursuit of beauty, and how he captured it on film. Compiled primarily from documents in the Charlie Chaplin archives, as well as other archives around the world, this book shows how Chaplin's work was not only inspired by his early poverty-stricken life in London, but also by his working life in the music halls of Britain and on the vaudeville stages of America."--Introduction, page 9.