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The silent clowns
- Title
- The silent clowns / Walter Kerr.
- Author
- Kerr, Walter, 1913-1996.
- Publication
- New York, N.Y. : Da Capo, [1990]
- ©1975
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PN1995.9.C55 K4 1990 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 372 pages : illustrations; 27 cm.
- Series Statement
- A Da Capo paperback
- Uniform Title
- Da Capo paperback
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Reprint. Originally published: New York : A.A. Knopf. 1980.
- Contents
- The Pickford paradox and the choice of silence -- The unique experience -- The fact in the fantasy -- The fantasy in the fact -- Fantasy intensified: music and the the dancing image -- Serious film: the disadvantages of silence -- Comedy in search of its freedom -- Sennett: the insensitive master carpenter -- Chaplin: an outline becomes a character -- Chaplin: playfulness unleashed -- Harold Lloyd: hard work -- The roach lot: a bit more method in the madness -- An inquisitive Keaton and a generous Arbuckle -- The Keaton "No" -- Keaton: exploring the gap between life and lens -- The Keaton curve: a study in cooperation -- Some imperfect fools -- The risks of length and complexity: Chaplin takes the plunge -- The Chaplin breakthrough: Making seriousness funny -- Chaplain betwixt and between -- Lloyd: the firtuous filmmaking of the virtuous American -- Lloyd: architect of sympathy -- The Keaton quiet -- Keaton as film -- Keaton: the girl and the grave -- Two epics -- Who was Harry Langdon? -- Langdon: creating an ambiguity -- ity -- Langdon: the ambiguity dissolves -- The demiclowns -- The unexpected Raymond Griffith -- Missing film -- Laurel and Hardy: the first turnaround -- Laurel and Hardy: the saving turnaround -- The transition, after and just before: a self conscious Chaplin -- Chaplin confronts himself -- The end without an ending: Chaplin defines the road.
- ISBN
- 0306803879
- 9780306803871
- LCCN
- 89071402
- OCLC
- ocm20823384
- 20823384
- SCSB-14708749
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library