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Chaplin: The Tramp's Odyssey
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Author
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Simon Louvish.
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Publisher
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Thomas Dunne
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Format
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hardcover
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Product Dimensions
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8.5
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5.75
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1.4
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ISBN
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9780312581695
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Pages/Publication Date
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412/2009
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Daedalus Item Code
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13592
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Description
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The biographer of W.C. Fields, Mae West, Laurel and Hardy, and the Marx Brothers here reveals the "mask behind the man" of Charlie Chaplin. Simon Louvish charts the tale of the Tramp character through his films, from the early Mack Sennett shorts through such major features as The Gold Rush, City Lights, Modern Times, and The Great Dictator. He retrieves Chaplin as the iconic London street kid who carried the "surreal" antics of early British music hall triumphantly onto the Hollywood screen, and looks anew at Chaplin's and the Tramp's social and political ideas—the challenge to fascism, defiance of the McCarthyite witch hunts, and eventual "exile" from Hollywood. "The Tramp's Odyssey is sharp, fast, full of unexpected detail, and impressively succeeds in demystifying Chaplin while leaving the Tramp's mechanistic mystique largely intact."—New Statesman
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