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City Lights de Charles J. Maland

City Lights: BFI Film Classics

Autor Charles J. Maland
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 iun 2007
In 1967, Charlie Chaplin told, "I think I like "City Lights" the best of all my films." Based on archival research of Chaplin's production records, this work offers a history of the film's production and reception, as well as an examination of the film itself, with special attention to the sources of the final scene's emotional power.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781844571758
ISBN-10: 1844571750
Pagini: 128
Dimensiuni: 135 x 190 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Ediția:2007
Editura: British Film Institute
Colecția British Film Institute
Seria BFI Film Classics

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

CHARLES MALAND is a Professor of Cinema Studies, American Studies and English at the University of Tennessee

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In 1967 Charlie Chaplin told an interviewer, 'I think I likeCity Lightsthe best of
all my films'. Speaking of the film's famous ending, James Agee wrote that 'it
is enough to shrivel the heart to see'. AlthoughCity Lightshad a long and
extremely difficult production history, the final film, in Alistair Cooke's apt
words, flows 'like water over pebbles, smooth and simple for all to see with no
hint of the groaning pressure that had gone into it'.
It could easily have been otherwise. Chaplin began the film in 1927, even before
the release ofThe Circus, just months after a highly publicized divorce from his
second wife and in the midst of a tax dispute with the US government, both of
which cost him dearly. In addition, Chaplin's mother, with whom he had a
close and complex relationship, died in August 1928. Besides the burden of
these financial and emotional strains, Chaplin also had to contend with the
transition of the American film industry to the talkies and the downward
spiral of the depression following the Stock Market Crash in October 1929. He
chose a novice actress, Virginia Cherrill, as the female lead for the film, and
during production he fired the man originally cast as the millionaire and fired,
then re-hired, Cherrill. Yet he pressed forward, releasing the film to much
acclaim and box-office success in the first two months of 1931.
Aesthetically, technologically, and culturally,City Lightsis a key transitional
film in Chaplin's body of work, as the director/writer/actor responded for
the first time to sound films and stepped in the direction of the social
commentary that would become more overt inModern Times(1936) and
The Great Dictator(1940). Based on extensive archival research of Chaplin's
production records, Charles Maland'sCity Lightsoffers a careful history of the
film's production and reception, as well as a close examination of the film
itself, with special attention to the sources of the final scene's emotional power.