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Charlie Chaplin and Society, 2007.
This paper discusses Charlie Chaplin's film "Gold Rush".
1,046 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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The paper examines the film "Gold Rush" and shows how Charlie Chaplin went against the societal trends of his time by portraying social perspectives and ideals. The paper describes the film that is partially based on the infamous gold rush in Alaska where many men died with hopes and dreams of finding gold. The paper demonstrates how this film presented the hopes, dreams and failures of average working people in America.
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""The Gold Rush is the quintessential Chaplin film, with a balance of slapstick comedy and pantomime, social satire, and emotional and dramatic moments of tenderness" (Dirks). It is a film that is partially based on the infamous gold rush in Alaska where many men died with hopes and dreams of finding gold. And, it is also influenced some what by the story of the Donner party, as some of the scenes were filmed in Northern California in the region where the Donner party was headed (Dirks)."
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Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, 2004.
This paper discusses the influence of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin in the development of the early business of film.
1,140 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper discusses that Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, gifted actors and early producers, made names for themselves and invented many film techniques used today. The author points out that early American films were in the form of comedy; later, films began to become more complex and innovative. The paper relates that Buster Keaton?s 1926 film, ?The General?, was a remarkable movie for its time because most of the movie was filmed outdoors.
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"The innovative minds behind some of the early greatest movies like ?The General? and ?The Gold Rush,? were Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin. Charlie Chaplin came into the movie and acting industry at the age of 17, and began to get involved with acting and writing. He muscled his way up the ranks and later began to make movies and star in them as well. One of his clutch performances was his role in ?The Gold Rush? as the Lone Prospector. A scene from this 1925 film that stood out was of the cabin scene that the Lone Prospector finds and enters for shelter during the whiteout blizzard."
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Charlie Chaplin and Jim Carrey, 2003.
A film journal about Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights" and the Little Tramp.
3,220 words (approx. 12.9 pages), 12 sources, APA, $ 111.95
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The first part of the paper deals with Charlie Chaplin, focusing on his movie, "City Lights", and his persona of "The Little Tramp". The second part compares Chaplin and Jim Carrey, and argues that Carrey does not have the comic genius of Chaplin.
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"Film critic Roger Ebert characterized Charlie Chaplin'sc haracter the Little Tramp as the most famous image on earth in the early ..."
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Views on Charlie Chaplin, 2004.
An examination of public views on Charlie Chaplin and an analysis of some of his work.
2,058 words (approx. 8.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 64.95
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This paper examines the way that Chaplin was treated by U.S. officials and the American public as a result of his political views, focusing on his work in 'City Lights", "Modern Times", and "The Great Dictator".
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"Chaplin was an essential element in the life of the early 20th-century cinema. The earliest films shown in the United States (where so many of all early films were shown) were meant to be seen and laughed at by audiences made up of immigrants speaking a dozen different languages and with as many different cultural traditions of what was funny and what was sacrosanct. Chaplin at least initially created a comfortable place for himself in this world by using the universal language of slapstick to communicate with his audiences. As Chaplin (as well as other early comic actors in the then-new medium of film) used it, slapstick provided a common visual vocabulary of humor for these immigrant American audiences. It reminded them of their common humanity and in doing so both gave them something to laugh at and reminded them that, after all, they were not so very different from each other. Politics serves to divide different groups of people from each other, and this was not the intent of the early silent movies. The content of these early films was essentially apolitical, meant to appeal to as wide an audience as possible and meant more as an exploration of the medium of film than anything else."
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Artistry of Charlie Chaplin, 1990.
This paper discusses the artistry of Charlie Chaplin by his contributions to film through his theory of the roles of actor, artist and director.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 7 sources, $ 63.95
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"This paper will be concerned with the artistry of Charlie Chaplin. Specifically, it will analyze Chaplin's contribution to the art of film as seen in his treatment of the roles of actor, artist and director. Charlie Chaplin was born on April 16, 1889 in London. He became involved in theatrical acting at an early age, and in this capacity he came to the United States when he was only twenty-one. However, once he arrived in America his interests soon changed from the theater to the new film industry which was being established at the time. Chaplin's first work in film was as an actor under the comedy director Mack Sennett. Sennett was known for his slapstick comedies which featured the Keystone Kops and various other characters. After familiarizing himself with the art of comic film acting in a series of Sennett shorts, Chaplin moved on to work for a variety of other ... "
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Charlie Chaplin, 1995.
Reviews the life and career of film legend Charlie Chaplin. Focuses on Chaplin's development of his Little Tramp character and his reliance on visual or physical comedy.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 4 sources, $ 55.95
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"Charlie Chaplin was hailed as the leading comic actor of the silent era and was recognized around the world for his Tramp character. He had a number of imitators--Billy West was a silent comedian who used the same Tramp character, the same clothing, some of the same mannerisms, and only by close observation can one be certain which actor one is watching at times. Chaplin, however, was far more talented than his imitators and maintained his position far longer than they. He also wrote and directed most of his films after a certain point, and he made better use of the comic Tramp character as a social commentary. Buster Keaton is also notable in this era for his unique and humorous screen persona, and the way in which he utilized it for social commentary.
These characters relied very heavily on facial expression and physicality, which transcends language, to convey their humor and ..."
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Charlie Chaplin and the City, 2002.
A look at the way Chaplin views city life in his movie "Modern Times".
1,762 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 56.95
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This essay traces the ideas that influenced Charlie Chaplin and modern times. It uses the theoretical ideas of reification to explain state control and mechanization of the popluace in a dystopian modernism. The main focus is on the movie "Modern Times".
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"Reification is ?the act (or the result of the act) of transforming human properties, relations and actions into properties, relations and actions of man-produced things which have become independent?of men and govern his life?. In other words when man, the subject, loses what defines him as man to his own creation, and begins to act as his own creation does. This is the fear of the modern. What happens when man comes closer to being a machine? Be it social, industrial or technological. What happens when man becomes indistinguishable from the machine? In Charlie Chaplin?s film ?Modern Times? we see a society that is becoming not only more mechanized in its mode of production but also on a social scale. The film illustrates a society heading towards state control, where the subject loses their identity to the machine. When Chaplin and the Gamin head off down the road at the end of the film, we realise that this road will not lead them or us to a better place but ?we know now with certainty that we are on the road that does not lead to anywhere? . The road that the pair plan to travel on metaphorically leads us to the idea that is representative of Singapore and the literature of a modern state controlled society, the unavoidable by-product of reification. I will examine Modern Times and the short story ?Beginning? by Ah Leong, in the light of Michel De Certeau?s work on the navigation and incarceration created by the railway . I will use De Certeau?s work as a symbol of our modern times and an identifier of the plight of the subject in Modern Times."
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Charlie Chaplin, 1993.
An examination of his film-making style including themes, the role of "The Little Tramp" and romance.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 3 sources, $ 47.95
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"This study will examine the films of Charlie Chaplin, specifically focusing on a theme and style running through a number of his films which reveal his personal vision and voice. His vision will be seen as revealed through his film-making style, and his voice will be seen as revealed through the major theme expressed in his films.
The themes and style of Chaplin's most effective films are seamlessly united. The major theme to be explored here --- the message carried by the Little Tramp --- is carried by Chaplin's simple and direct style, and at the same time the style perfectly fits the theme. The Little Tramp was simple enough to appeal to the masses, while he was also serious and complex enough to appeal to the more elite sectors of society: "Charlie was the darling of the intellectuals. Before he came into films..."
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Charlie Chaplin, 2001.
Analysis of his films & development from gag-based shorts to comedy features with complex ideas. Discusses "The Kid," "His Trysting Place," "The Idle Class."
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"Charlie Chaplin was one of the most popular and influential directors and performers in the history of film. His influence derived from many different aspects of his work but one of the most important was his role in the development of comic feature films. Although other performers and filmmakers were involved in the same process (and surpassed Chaplin at times) he was nearly unique in the degree of control he exerted over the development of his own films. A comparison of works ranging from his early days of making two-reel shorts for Keystone to later shorts and his first self-directed feature at First National, The Kid (1921), demonstrates the process through which coherent narrative features were developed from the gag-based style of the shorts. Although The Kid is not the height of Chaplin's accomplishment in the new form, as his first it displays some of the problems the..."
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Chaplin's Vision of Compassion and Success, 2007.
This paper discusses Charlie Chaplin's vision of compassion and success, while looking at the films "The Kid" (1921) and "The Gold Rush" (1925).
942 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 33.95
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In this article, the writer notes that Charlie Chaplin was one of the most successful performers of the silent era of film. The writer discusses that two of Chaplin's most famous film comedies show that wealth does not always equal success. The writer notes that even when his famous character, The Little Tramp was poor, he still had great compassion for others, and a sense of humor that enabled him to survive against all odds. The writer concludes that both of Chaplin's films show that when people are poor, cold, and hungry, they are always thinking about becoming wealthy, comfortable, and well-fed, but that does not mean that money and success are as necessary as love. The writer maintains that the films demonstrate that without love, happiness is impossible.
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"Amongst the discarded trash that no one else wants except poor people like the Tramp, Chaplin finds a treasure--a baby. The baby has been thrown in the alley by thieves, who value an expensive car more than a human life. The baby's wealthy but unwed mother left the child in her car with a note pleading to take care of the child. She went off to commit suicide, but could not bear to do it. When she returned to where she left her baby, the child was gone. The image of Chaplin's character finding the baby in the alley shows that the Tramp has found real, human riches that have been discarded like garbage because he is always able to spot treasure amongst trash, like good cast-off gloves. Afterwards, everyone mistakes the baby for the Tramp's child, and the boy and the Tramp become inseparable."
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Development of Charlie, 2002.
A character development sketch of the main character Charlie in "Babylon Revisted" by F. Scott Fitzgerald .
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This paper looks at the character Charlie in Fitzgerald's "Babylon Revisited" and shows the development of his character throughout the story, paying particular attention to the degree to which he is reformed. It further investigates whether Charlie is worthy of his honor, Honoria.
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"Fitzgerald?s ?Babylon Revisited? shows how ones seemingly harmless, insignificant actions of the present can destroy ones conscious wishes for the future, and it shows the development of a seemingly already developed character. Charlie Wales is a man that was filthy rich in the booming twenties. ?[Charlie] remembered thousand-franc notes given to an orchestra for playing a single number, hundred franc notes tossed to a doorman for calling a cab? (1662). Since he had made so much money in the stock market, he and his now deceased wife Helen did not have to work and were able to spend their time and money at the Ritz bar, a bar in Paris that gave most of its business to wealthy Americans during the 1920?s. Charlie and Helen lived the party life, complete with drugs and alcohol that ended up literally destroying Helen?s life and figuratively destroying Charlie?s. One night, when Charlie and Helen were in an argument, Charlie went home locked the door and went to sleep not knowing that Helen ?would arrive an hour later alone, that there would be a snowstorm in which she wandered about in slippers, too confused to find a taxi? (1668). Helen survived pneumonia but died from heart trouble, and Charlie went to a sanitarium, leaving Honoria to live with Helen?s sister Marion Peters and her husband Lincoln. In the early 1930?s, after Charlie has lost his wife, money, and eventually his daughter, and lives lonely in Prague, he returns to Paris to get his honor, Honoria, back. Charlie loved his wife and he loves his daughter. He abides by his one drink-a-day rule and believes that he is capable of being a good father to her which he wants to be before her childhood is over; he is also lonely and wants her companionship, and she is all there is left of Helen, whom he misses very much."
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Charlie Smith?s ?Beds?, 2005.
Examines how Charlie Smith constructs a poem from a Whitman-esque catalogue of beds he has known.
1,521 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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In his poem, "Beds", Charlie Smith charts his journey through addiction, through a catalogue or 'heaping figure' of beds he has known throughout his life. The paper examines this technique and the importance of metaphor as tool for raking through challenging subject matter.
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"Whatever one chooses to call the technique, Smith's handling of it is masterly. He takes an everyday object and uses it as a vehicle through which to explore a situation and its accompanying emotions. He continually implodes the object through constant re-inspection, "heaping" one kind of bed upon the other, exhausts it, turning it over and over, examining it ever closer until it ceases to be merely a bed and becomes a metaphor for each step of his journey. Smith's catalogue of beds are the landmarks of his recovery."
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Ulysses Everett McGill and Charlie Wales: Getting it Together?, 2002.
A discussion of the similarities and differences between Ulysses Everett McGill, the main character of the Coen Brothers' film "O Brother Where Art Thou?" and Charlie Wales, the main character of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "Babylon Revisited".
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This essay compares and contrasts the main characters of the film 'O Brother Where Art Thou?' written and directed by the Coen brothers and the short story 'Babylon Revisited' by F. Scott Fitzgerald, also made into a film. What seems at first an unlikely comparison turns out to be revealing. Ulysses Everett McGill and Charlie Wales are from vastly different backgrounds and social strata yet face similar dilemmas. Wales the wealthy socialite would seem more likely to succeed in his case to retrieve his daughter and get his life together. However, it is the escaped convict McGill, whose Ulysses-like Odyssey is discussed in depth, who succeeds in his quest, while the "recovering" alcoholic Wales is frustrated and delayed.
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"Ulysses Everett McGill, the central character in the film, O Brother Where Art Thou? produced in 2000, and Charlie Wales, the main character in the F. Scott Fizgerald story, ?Babylon Revisited,? published in 1931, and made into a movie in 1954, may at first glance appear to be vastly different, but turn out to share similarities. Ulysses Everett McGill and Charlie Wales are from vastly different classes and backgrounds, yet both live in approximately the same time period, the 1920s/30s, the time of the Great Depression and both are men deprived of wife and family. Neither one is exactly the ordinary man surviving under the duress of the depression. McGill is a crude and lowly escaped convict fleeing through the Bible belt, while the sophisticated Wales, who still seems to have plenty of money and social status despite the crash, is visiting Paris. Both want to get their lives back into some semblance of togetherness. Each seems to be continually sabotaged in his quest. As we watch both men we wonder if the destructive energy comes from outside or is inner generated. The resemblances are many, but the differences are greater, especially when it comes to the end results of their attempts to get it together."
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Charlie Parker, 2002.
A discussion of the life and works of Jazz musician Charlie Parker and the influence he had in the field.
2,865 words (approx. 11.5 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 85.95
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This paper sheds light on important aspects of Charlie Parker?s life and times. It introduces a jazz musician who completely transformed this type of music through his talent, originality and improvisation skills. The paper discusses the changes that he brought into jazz styles and also focuses on Parker?s influence on society and economy of his days. For this reason, many magazine articles and few books were consulted and research in this paper is appropriately supported by expert views and comments.
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"Charlie Parker?s name is synonymous with innovation in jazz music. This is because in his short life of 34 years, the man was able to transform the world of music by introducing new and better tunes and jazz styles that made him immortal. Charlie Parker was born in 1920 in Kansas City but later moved to New York where he found a more intelligent audience that appreciated his alto sax tunes and helped him in discovering new techniques including the famous Bebop. Bebop was probably the greatest achievement of this man and this jazz style became extremely popularly in that era. It is important to understand that this man was not simply a musician but was a legend in himself because not only did he transform Jazz, he also created awareness regarding this type of music. It was because of him that Americans from every social class started taking an interest in this kind of music and thus the man left an indelible mark on the United States and not particularly its one field."
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Charlie Parker, 1973.
This paper discusses the career and emotional problems of the musician Charlie Parker and contends that Parker's musical achievements were extremely influential.
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"Charles Christopher Parker was born in Kansas City, Kansas. He worked in the bands of Jay McShann, Earl Hines, and Billy Eckstine before forming his own small groups in the 1940s. From his youth, Parker was addicted to heroin. As a result, he suffered from many physical and emotional ills during his last years.".
Parker was an alto saxophonist and composer. He ranks among the most influential musicians in jazz history. He and Dizzy Gillepsie were responsible for the rise of "Bebop," a complex, rhythmic, melodic and harmonic form of jazz that developed in the 1940s. His many recordings illustrate his amazing technique and the richness of his musical ideas. "Charlie Parker recorded more versions of the blues (under a variety of titles) than any other form.". Several of his compositions, including "Confirmation" ... "
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