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• Winner of Casual Optimist Notable Book Covers 2016 (UK)

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The Chaplin Machine teems with exciting histories, possibilities, outrages and revelations. This brilliantly researched and beautifully written lightning bolt of a book approaches art and its history from a completely new point of the compass, and its readers will never again see the last century as they once did! An eye-bulging astonishment! -- Guy Maddin, writer, cinematographer, and director of many films including My Winnipeg.

Teems with exciting histories, possibilities, outrages and revelations. This brilliantly researched and beautifully written lightning bolt of a book approaches art and its history from a completely new point of the compass, and its readers will never again see the last century as they once did! An eye-bulging astonishment! -- Guy Maddin, director of films including The Saddest Music in the World and My Winnipeg. 'Puts the Lenin back in Chaplin and the Chaplin back in the pre-Stalinist USSR. Brilliantly conceived, impeccably researched and concisely written. A definitive work' -- Jon Beller, author of The Cinematic Mode of Production (Dartmouth College Press, 2006) 'Traces an enjoyably idiosyncratic path back and forth between film studios and factories on opposing continents ... offers intellectual excitement as well as rigour' -- Pamela Hutchinson, Guardian 'A dark comedy' -- Benjamin Noys, Review 31

The Chaplin Machine teems with exciting histories, possibilities, outrages and revelations. This brilliantly researched and beautifully written lightning bolt of a book approaches art and its history from a completely new point of the compass, and its readers will never again see the last century as they once did! An eye-bulging astonishment! -- Guy Maddin, director of films including The Saddest Music in the World and My Winnipeg. 'Puts the Lenin back in Chaplin and the Chaplin back in the pre-Stalinist USSR. Brilliantly conceived, impeccably researched and concisely written. A definitive work' -- Jon Beller, author of The Cinematic Mode of Production (Dartmouth College Press, 2006)

'Traces an enjoyably idiosyncratic path back and forth between film studios and factories on opposing continents ... offers intellectual excitement as well as rigour' -- Pamela Hutchinson, Guardian 'Teems with exciting histories, possibilities, outrages and revelations. This brilliantly researched and beautifully written lightning bolt of a book approaches art and its history from a completely new point of the compass, and its readers will never again see the last century as they once did! An eye-bulging astonishment!' -- Guy Maddin, director of films including The Saddest Music in the World and My Winnipeg. 'Puts the Lenin back in Chaplin and the Chaplin back in the pre-Stalinist USSR. Brilliantly conceived, impeccably researched and concisely written. A definitive work' -- Jon Beller, author of The Cinematic Mode of Production (Dartmouth College Press, 2006) 'A dark comedy' -- Benjamin Noys, Review 31 'Captivating reading; lively, informative and entertaining' -- Times Literary Supplement

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Owen Hatherley is an architecture and culture critic whose writings have spanned Soviet Constructivism, to the merits of Coventry train station. His acerbic wit and sense for 'place' can be found in the pages of Guardian and Architects Journal. He is the author of numerous books on architecture and culture, including The Chaplin Machine (Pluto Press, 2016), Trans-Europe Express (Penguin, 2017), A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain (Verso, 2010) and Militant Modernism (Zero, 2009).

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