Overview
- Provides the first extended analysis and narrative of Chaplin's move from maligned to celebrated figure in America
- Based upon impressive research ranging from primary documents in various archives, original personal interviews, and secondary sources
- Extends the study Chaplin's legacy in popular and academic circles through the 2010s
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About this book
This book focuses on the re-invigoration of Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp persona in America from the point at which Chaplin reached the acme of his disfavor in the States, promoted by the media, through his departure from America forever in 1952, and ending with his death in Switzerland in 1977. By considering factions of America as diverse as 8mm film collectors, Beat poets and writers and readers of Chaplin biographies, this cultural study determines conclusively that Chaplin’s Little Tramp never died, but in fact experienced a resurgence, which began slowly even before 1950 and was wholly in effect by 1965 and then confirmed by 1972, the year in which Chaplin returned to the United States for the final time, to receive accolades in both New York and Los Angeles, where he received an Oscar for a lifetime of achievement in film.
Reviews
“Lisa Stein Haven has worked to build community among Chaplin descendants, researchers, and enthusiasts in the twenty-first century as she tries to understand the rise and fall of celebrity and what the process reveals about American culture. Her book is thorough, impeccably researched, and accessibly written. It picks up where many studies of Chaplin leave off, shedding light on one of America’s best-known movie personalities and the iconic, much-loved character that he portrayed.” (Kathy Merlock Jackson, The Journal of American Culture, Vol. 40 (4), December, 2017)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Lisa Stein Haven is Associate Professor of English at Ohio University Zanesville, USA. She specializes in 20th Century British and American literature and silent film comedy. Her last book A Comedian Sees the World, an edition of Charlie Chaplin’s 1934 travelogue, has been translated into five languages.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp in America, 1947–77
Authors: Lisa Stein Haven
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40478-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-40477-6Published: 16 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82113-9Published: 27 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-40478-3Published: 09 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 300
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations
Topics: Film History, American Culture, British Cinema and TV, British Culture, North American Literature