CHAPLIN: THE TRAMP’S ODYSSEY

Book ID/图书代码： 03640910B38302

English Summary/英文概要： An Everyman who expressed the defiant spirit of freedom, Charlie Chaplin was first lauded and later reviled in the America that made him Hollywood’s richest man. He was a figure of multiple paradoxes. Simon Louvish’s new book, following his five major biographies of comedy’s classic stars, from W.C. Fields to Laurel and Hardy and Mae West, looks afresh at the "mask behind the man."

Louvish charts the tale of the Tramp himself through his films, from the early Mack Sennett shorts through the major features (The Gold Rush, City Lights, Modern Times, The Great Dictator, et al.). He retrieves Chaplin as the iconic London street kid who carried the "surreal" antics of early British music hall triumphantly onto the Hollywood screen. Louvish also looks anew at Chaplin’s and the Tramp’s social and political ideas--the challenge to fascism, defiance of the McCarthyite witch hunts, eventual "exile," and last mature disguises as the serial killer Monsieur Verdoux and the dying English clown Calvero in Limelight.

This book is an epic journey, summing up the roots of comedy and its appeal to audiences everywhere, who reveled in the clown’s raw energy, his ceaseless struggle against adversity, and his capacity to represent our own fears, foibles, dreams, inner demons and hopes.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 卓别林是一个矛盾综合体，他凭借其大胆的自由精神，一度从平民百姓跃居好莱坞首富，却又受尽美国人的赞美和辱骂。他以其伦敦街头流浪小孩，带着英国早期音乐厅超现实的滑稽形象登上了好莱坞荧屏。作者借助其五部自传体式的喜剧之星，以全新的视角为我们揭开了面具背后的卓别林，同时阐释了卓别林和其流浪汉形象对社会和政治的看法。本书堪称史诗之旅，总结了喜剧之根源，吸引了各地观众，他们都深深迷恋着卓别林化身的流浪汉的原始力量、其面对艰难无畏的奋斗以及呈现我们自己的恐惧、梦想、内心的邪念以及希望等的能力。(兼职翻译-XJJ)

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About the Author/作者介绍： 卓别林是一个矛盾综合体，他凭借其大胆的自由精神，一度从平民百姓跃居好莱坞首富，却又受尽美国人的赞美和辱骂。他以其伦敦街头流浪小孩，带着英国早期音乐厅超现实的滑稽形象登上了好莱坞荧屏。作者借助其五部自传体式的喜剧之星，以全新的视角为我们揭开了面具背后的卓别林，同时阐释了卓别林和其流浪汉形象对社会和政治的看法。本书堪称史诗之旅，总结了喜剧之根源，吸引了各地观众，他们都深深迷恋着卓别林化身的流浪汉的原始力量、其面对艰难无畏的奋斗以及呈现我们自己的恐惧、梦想、内心的邪念以及希望等的能力。

SIMON LOUVISH was born in Glasglow in 1947 and grew up in Israel. Later he decamped to the London School of Film Technique, where he became involved in the production of a series of independent documentary films. He also published a memoir of his Israeli days as well as a series of novels set mainly in the Middle East. Since 1979, he has also been teaching film at the London Film School and writing for various newspapers and magazines.
Louvis is the author of definitive biographies of great clowns of screen comedy, including Man on the Flying Trapeze: The Story of W. C. Fields, Monkey Business: The Lives and Legends of the Marx Brothers, and Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy. Further film biographies include Keystone: The Life and Clowns of Mack Sennet, Mae West: It Ain’t No Sin, and Cecil B. DeMille: A Life in Art.
For more information please visit his Web site: www.simonlouvish.com.

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