Table of Contents
Frontmatter — Acknowledgements to/ Remerciements à. Illustrations. We acknowledge / nous remercions: — Preface / Préface — Table of contents / Table des matières — I. Charles Chaplin: The man, his work and his time / L’homme, l’œuvre et son temps — Chaplin and the resistance to “talkies” — Pretending the world is funny: Charlie Chaplin's job as the prototype comic personality — Charles Chaplin and the Jewish world — The Chaplin reception in Germany (Brilliant comedian and “Jewish film clown”) — Charles Chaplin en compagnie de Schopenhauer — Les implications de la technique chaplinesque du gag — Molière, Chaplin: structures comiques — Chaplin, la matière et l’allégement — Charles Chaplin: an embodiment of paradox (le comique et la terreur) — II. Charles Chaplin: His films / Etude de ses films — Charlie Chaplin or the “vaudeville dispossessed” — Chaplin’s short films: between narration and monstration — Gag and narration in Chaplin's cinema at the transition from short to full-length movies (1918–1923) — Charlie in the Far North: the tall tale element in The Gold Rush — Comedy and Pathos in City Lights — Modem Times and the American culture of the 1930's — Modem Times in the light of Adorno and Beckett — The social function of humor in Charles Chaplin’s movies — Chaplin’s film pioneer status in black or macabre humor — Les films “mineurs” de Chaplin — III. Charles Chaplin: The myth / Le mythe — Charlie Chaplin and the comic strips — La représentation de Chariot dans deux magazines pour enfant: Mon Journal (1881–1925) et le Cri-Cri (1911–1937) — Le dernier gag de Charles Chaplin — Chaplin et Chariot — Chariot et son double — Chariot syllepse: éléments pour une théorie du gag — Le point de vue de Gulliver — La Ruée vers l’or — Charles Chaplin, poète comique — Postscript — Postface — IV. Bibliography/Bibliographie — Books on and by Chaplin An international bibliography — V. Appendices / Annexes — Abstracts / Résumés — Contributors / Signatures — VI. Charles Chaplin: Filmography/Filmographie — VII. Index — VIII. Illustrations
