Table of contents / Table des matières

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements to/ Remerciements à. Illustrations. We acknowledge / nous remercions: V
3. Preface / Préface VII
4. Table of contents / Table des matières XIII
5. I. Charles Chaplin: The man, his work and his time / L’homme, l’œuvre et son temps
6. Chaplin and the resistance to “talkies” 3
7. Pretending the world is funny: Charlie Chaplin's job as the prototype comic personality 11
8. Charles Chaplin and the Jewish world 17
9. The Chaplin reception in Germany (Brilliant comedian and “Jewish film clown”) 25
10. Charles Chaplin en compagnie de Schopenhauer 35
11. Les implications de la technique chaplinesque du gag 41
12. Molière, Chaplin: structures comiques 49
13. Chaplin, la matière et l’allégement 57
14. Charles Chaplin: an embodiment of paradox (le comique et la terreur) 61
15. II. Charles Chaplin: His films / Etude de ses films
16. Charlie Chaplin or the “vaudeville dispossessed” 69
17. Chaplin’s short films: between narration and monstration 77
18. Gag and narration in Chaplin's cinema at the transition from short to full-length movies (1918–1923) 83
19. Charlie in the Far North: the tall tale element in The Gold Rush 89
20. Comedy and Pathos in City Lights 97
21. Modem Times and the American culture of the 1930's 103
22. Modem Times in the light of Adorno and Beckett 119
23. The social function of humor in Charles Chaplin’s movies 125
24. Chaplin’s film pioneer status in black or macabre humor 139
25. Les films “mineurs” de Chaplin 151
26. III. Charles Chaplin: The myth / Le mythe
27. Charlie Chaplin and the comic strips 161
28. La représentation de Chariot dans deux magazines pour enfant: Mon Journal (1881–1925) et le Cri-Cri (1911–1937) 171
29. Le dernier gag de Charles Chaplin 181
30. Chaplin et Chariot 187
31. Chariot et son double 195
32. Chariot syllepse: éléments pour une théorie du gag 201
33. Le point de vue de Gulliver 209
34. La Ruée vers l’or 211
35. Charles Chaplin, poète comique 215
36. Postscript 219
37. Postface 221
38. IV. Bibliography/Bibliographie
39. Books on and by Chaplin An international bibliography 227
40. V. Appendices / Annexes
41. Abstracts / Résumés 341
42. Contributors / Signatures 353
43. VI. Charles Chaplin: Filmography/Filmographie 361
44. VII. Index 369
45. VIII. Illustrations 387