Tsivian describes Charlie Chaplin's transmedia journey across national borders and artistic movements. This journey came to produce what he calls the "Soviet Chaplin," a complex effect of a network ...of work produced by European intellectuals and artists in the early twentieth century. The construction of Chaplin's fame draws from older media and looks forward to a contemporary convergence culture. A movement across media enables Tsivian to track the metamorphoses of Chaplin as an unstable transnational figure.
By the very nature of its subject, To Be or Not to Be (1942) caused Ernst Lubitsch considerable trouble, even though it came late in his successful film career, which began in Germany in 1913 and ...finished in Hollywood in 1947. It must be recalled that Lubitsch was Jewish and would in any case have been under heavy pressure to leave Germany after January 1933 had he not already done so ten years earlier. Adolf Hitler himself is said to have had a particular animus against Lubitsch, as a Berlin Jew who triumphed in the German film industry and then went on to further triumphs in Hollywood. The Nazi propaganda picture The Eternal Jew (1940) went so far as to display the director's face as an archetype of corruption and depravity. Along with The Shop Around the Corner (1940), Trouble in Paradise (1932), and Design for Living (1933), To Be or Not to Be ranks among Lubitsch's best films. It is a black comedy about Hitler at the same time as it was a morale-builder for Resistance fighters throughout Europe during World War II. Along with Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator (1940), itself a dark comedy about Hitler, To Be or Not to Be is an early landmark in the evolution of a modern genre: war-as-black-comedy. This essay reconsiders Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be in light of its controversial genre (sometimes described as grotesque satire or gallows humor), its relationship to the theater (including acting), and the film's sociohistorical context (Nazism, the Holocaust, and World War II).
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City Lights Maland, Charles
2007, 2007/01/01
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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.
The Alps Mazer, Ben
Harvard review (Cambridge, Mass. 1992),
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There is no utterance for recognizing that these, too, swim towards a completion, never to come again, but to be always. 5 Who but the least of them can give assurance that to exist - to radiate out ...of a name - is to form a decahedron, in which the wars of history are forsworn for the sake of a pure principle, a stellar mountebank of guidance. ...it was - coming out of the theatre, where the least desire had been crowned a king, and no one looked to see spring was returning, for the shadows of intrigue and ambition forbade it - the sole cardinal announcing like a trumpet, a silver Buddha or toy elephant, sang without voice of a unique recurrence, and stopped once at the top of the opera stair: that these too have no name, yet, unassailable, exist to tantalize their lost forbearers with a sense that they too must have been. For the virtue and the edge of modernity are the capacity for larger myths endlessly repeatable - so blue eyes blare not only the milk horns, or the garden's hedge but the vast sea that slays the sword as if a thousand thundering heard quite far away, had jumped instantly and voicelessly on one vital truth - as dark and drowning as the first storm that blew apart the mountains.
TRIBUTE TO ALFRED HILL Edgar, Harold
Columbia law review,
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Alfred Hill, a great legal scholar and one of Columbia's treasures for nearly 50 years, died in 2015 at the age of 98., Alfred Hill, a great legal scholar and one of Columbia’s treasures for nearly ...50 years, died in 2015 at the age of 98.
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Top Grossing Movies (adjusted for inflation) Gone With the Wine (1939) Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) The Sound of Music (1965) E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (İ982) Titanic (1997) The Ten Commandments ...(1956) Jaws (1975) Doctor Zhivago (1965) The Exorcist (1973) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) Scare Away the Calories While horror movies may not literally scare your pants off, it turns out they can cause your body to burn a lot of calories. The film follows the production cycle of a pedometer in reverse chronological order from sale to its creation at the manufacturer. *Fresh Guacamole: the shortest film ever nominated for an Oscar lasted a whole 1 minute and 40 seconds. The film depicts a man making m guacamole out of strange ingredients such as dice and poker chips. *Resan: a documentary structured around the themes of nuclear weapons, military spending and poverty.
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Everybody knows Charlie Chaplin as the funny little man on screen with the funny little walk. But beneath the Tramp's trademark bowler hat and toothbrush mustache laid an unsung composer off screen. ...This comprehensive study tells the untold story of Chaplin the composer and the string of famous and not-so-famous musicians he employed.
In this article, I discuss in detail the surveillance and the persecution by the United States Government of three of the greatest artists of the twentieth century: Charlie Chaplin, Bertolt Brecht ...and Hanns Eisler. Because of their association with left-wing figures and, in the case of the latter two, their writing, the national security agencies amassed voluminous files on them, mainly filled with circumstantial evidence and the words of informers. But in the cold-war United States the words of informers and circumstantial evidence were gilt-edged bonds. Chaplin and Eisler were subject to lengthy interrogations by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and all three were issued subpoenas by the Committee on Un-American Activities. Only Brecht and Eisler (twice) actually testified. Brecht hastily left the country after his testimony, while Eisler was deported. Chaplin left for a trip around the world, but the Attorney General announced he would not be allowed to return. Though each of these artists resisted as best they could, they did not have a strong support network behind them, and the cold-war juggernaut easily disposed of them.
