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Author:   Wes D. Gehring
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.354kg
ISBN:  

9781476672441

ISBN 10:   147667244
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   29 January 2021
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Foreword by Anthony Slide Preface and Acknowledgments Prologue: Searching for an Artist’s Lost Shadow 1. Chaplin’s Biography Prior to A Woman of Paris: (A Darkly Farcical Perspective) (1889–1923) 2. “Chaplinitis”: The Initial Fame Factor and Early Chaplin Films with Tangential Ties to A Woman of Paris 3. The Messiah-like World War I Bond Tour: “Chaplinitis” in Overdrive 4. Further Glass Ceiling Breaking: The Precedent Shattering Dark Comedy Shoulder Arms (1918) 5. Edna Purviance: A Less Than “Sunnyside” (1919) March to The Kid (1921) and A Woman of Paris (1923) 6. More Revisionism: A Short Subject and The Kid (1921) Continue to Anticipate A Woman of Paris (1923) 7. The Kid (1921) More Than Fulfills the “Letter to a Genius” Opening to Chapter 6 8. Charlie Chaplin Goes to Europe (1921) 9. Continuing the Path to A Woman of Paris (1923): A Unique Literary Year and Two Seminal Shorter Works 10. Prologue to A Woman of Paris (1923): The Pilgrim (1923), and the Women Impacting Paris 11. Making A Woman of Paris (1923) and Its Response 12. Correcting More Errors About Both the 1923 Release and the 1970s Rebirth of A Woman of Paris Epilogue: A Woman of Paris (1923) and the United States of Amnesia Filmography Chapter Notes Bibliography Index

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Gehring remains supreme in film comedy scholarship - Choice Just about anything with film historian and media writer Wes D. Gehring's name on it will be of quality. - Cinema Retro.

Gehring remains supreme in film comedy scholarship --Choice Just about anything with film historian and media writer Wes D. Gehring's name on it will be of quality. --Cinema Retro

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Wes D. Gehring is a distinguished professor of film at Ball State University and associate media editor for USA Today magazine, for which he also writes the column “Reel World.” He is the author of 40 film books, including biographies of James Dean, Carole Lombard, Steve McQueen, Robert Wise, Red Skelton and Charlie Chaplin.

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