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Edgar's Giude to Charlie Chaplin's London: 2021 by Adam Wood 9781838234249
Booksplease Price: £12.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838234249Author Adam WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Edgar's GuidesPublisher Edgar's... -
Vintage Journal Charlie Chaplin Doll by Found Image Press 9781669504764
RRP: £8.25Booksplease Price: £7.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781669504764Author Found Image PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Found Image PressPublisher... -
Charlie Chaplin's Red Letter Days: At Work with the Comic Genius by Fred Goodwins 9781442278080
Booksplease Price: £45.31By the end of 1914, Charlie Chaplin had become the most popular actor in films, and reporters were clamoring for interviews with the comedy sensation. But no reporter had more access than Fred... -
The Art of Charlie Chaplin: A Film-by-film Analysis Kyp Harness 9780786431939
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.37This thorough guide to Chaplin's films traces his acting career chronologically, from his initial appearance in 1914's ""Making a Living"" to his final starring role in 1957's ""A King in New York""... -
Love and Loss in Hollywood: Florence Deshon, Max Eastman, and Charlie Chaplin by Cooper C. Graham
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.73In 1919, Florence Deshon-tall, radical, and charismatic-was well on her way to becoming one of Hollywood's brightest stars. Embroiled in a clandestine affair with Charlie Chaplin, she continued to... -
Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided by Scott Eyman 9781982176358
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £11.48The remarkable, must-read story of Charlie Chaplin's years of exile from the United States during the postwar Red Scare, and how it ruined his film career, from bestselling biographer Scott Eyman... -
Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp in America, 1947-77 by Lisa Stein Haven 9783319404776
RRP: £119.99Booksplease Price: £115.02This 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,... -
Charlie Chaplin and the Nazis: The Long German Campaign Against the Artist Norbert Aping 9781476687407
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £30.78Until recently, it was assumed that the Nazis agitated against Chaplin from 1931 to 1933, and then again from 1938, when his plan to make The Great Dictator became public. This book demonstrates... -
Charlie Chaplin and A Woman of Paris: The Genesis of a Misunderstood Masterpiece Wes D. Gehring 9781476672441
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £30.78Charlie Chaplin's A Woman of Paris (1923) was a groundbreaking film which was neither a simple recycling of Peggy Hopkins Joyce's story, nor quickly forgotten. Through heavily-documented "period... -
Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp in America, 1947-77 by Lisa Stein Haven 9783319821139
RRP: £119.99Booksplease Price: £112.12This 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,... -
Love and Loss in Hollywood: Florence Deshon, Max Eastman, and Charlie Chaplin by Cooper C. Graham 9780253052926
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £55.01In 1919, Florence Deshon-tall, radical, and charismatic-was well on her way to becoming one of Hollywood's brightest stars. Embroiled in a clandestine affair with Charlie Chaplin, she continued to... -
Woody Allen and Charlie Chaplin: Little Men, Big Auteurs Jill Franks 9781476677927
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19The comic archetype of the Little Man-a "nobody" who stands up to unfairness-is central to the films of Woody Allen and Charlie Chaplin. Portraying the alienation of life in an indifferent world with... -
Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times: The Work of Life in the Age of Mechanical Reproducibility by Carl Peters 9781032180267
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.95This book looks at Charlie Chaplin's masterpiece, Modern Times (1936), through the lens of film aesthetics, structure, and post-modern perspective. The naive Tramp character of Modern Times is often... -
Chess Players: From Charlie Chaplin to Wu-Tang Clan Dylan Loeb McClain 9781739887865
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £21.58An incredible collection of images of chess players from the last 130 years, showcasing the unique relationship between chess and culture, featuring world famous actors, artists, politicians and... -
Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided Scott Eyman 9781982176365
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95The "shocking" (The Wall Street Journal), must-read story of Charlie Chaplin's years of exile from the United States during the postwar Red Scare, and how it ruined his film career, from bestselling... -
The Chaplin Conspiracy: The Ballashiels Mysteries by Stewart Ferris 9781786151858
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £3.35When hard-up aristocrat Lord `Ratty' Ballashiels finds an old film reel in his attic he discovers that it's a home movie of Charlie Chaplin's visit to Rennes-le-Chateau in the south of France. But... -
The Early Years of Charlie Chaplin: Final Shorts and First Features by Lisa Stein Haven 9781526780720
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.87Charlie Chaplin's career has been described, critiqued, and scrutinized. There are book-length studies on Chaplin's music hall career, his career at Keystone Studios and the Mutual Studios. Somehow,... -
A History of Early Film V3 Stephen Herbert 9781032513416
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £30.76Volume 3 of A History of Early Film examines critical responses to early cinema, including the impassioned thoughts of one of the first film critics, the American poet Vachel Lindsay and considers... -
Charlie Chaplin: A Political Biography from Victorian Britain to Modern America Richard Carr (University of East Anglia, UK) 9781138923263
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Richard Carr's Charlie Chaplin places politics at the centre of the filmmaker's life as it looks beyond Chaplin's role as a comedic figure to his constant political engagement both on and off the... -
A Day With Exceptional Visionaries: Walt Disney, Bill Gates, Charlie Chaplin and The Beatles by MOONSTONE MOONSTONE 9789357024105
Booksplease Price: £20.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357024105Author MOONSTONE MOONSTONEFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Rupa Publications India... -
Hard Streets: Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London, 1843-1913 Jacqueline Riding 9781800818644
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.37'HARD STREETS is a rich and emotive study of a world now lost that will leave readers stunned' Hallie Rubenhold, author of THE FIVE Charlie Chaplin rose from the hard streets of Edwardian London... -
Play, illusion, Reality, and Trauma: What Can a Psychoanalyst Learn from Charlie Chaplin? by Albert Brok 9781949093520
RRP: £19.31Booksplease Price: £15.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949093520Author Albert BrokFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint IpbooksPublisher... -
A Fallen God by Michael J Chaplin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95In a bustling marketplace, an extraordinary encounter sets in motion a series of events that intertwines the fates of two individuals, defying expectations and leading to an indelible love story. ... -
China's Chaplin: Comic Stories and Farces by Xu Zhuodai Zhuodai Xu 9781939161949
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.01Hoaxes! Jokes! Farces and fun! China's Chaplin introduces the imagination of Xu Zhuodai (1880-1958), a comic dynamo who made Shanghai laugh through the tumultuous decades of the pre-Mao era. Xu was a... -
Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties by Lucy Moore
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Bracketed by the catastrophes of the Great War and the Wall Street Crash, 1920s America was a place of drama, tension and hedonism. It glittered and seduced: jazz, flappers, wild all-night parties,... -
Geraldine Chaplin: The Gift of Film Performance by Steven Rybin
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.23The most distinguished actor among Charlie Chaplin's children, Geraldine Chaplin has created a striking performative presence across international cinema. In shifting cinematic contexts and through... -
The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The Book of Illusions, written with breath-taking urgency and precision, plunges the reader into a universe in which the comic and the tragic, the real and the imagined, and the violent and the... -
100 Essential Silent Film Comedies by James Roots 9781442278240
Booksplease Price: £52.01From the moment films were first produced, comedy has been a key feature of cinema. From just before the turn of the twentieth century until the early 1930s, audiences celebrated the brilliant humor... -
Flickers of Desire: Movie Stars of the 1910s by Jennifer M. Bean
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.12Today, we are so accustomed to consuming the amplified lives of film stars that the origins of the phenomenon may seem inevitable in retrospect. But the conjunction of the terms "movie" and "star"... -
The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe Sarah Churchwell 9781526613349
Booksplease Price: £5.70'Ferociously smart. A rare combination of guilty pleasure and intellectual insight' VOGUE 'Perceptive. Refreshing. Tears away layers of false readings and conspiracy theories' NEW YORK TIMES ... -
Action!: How Movies Began by Meghan McCarthy
Booksplease Price: £16.04A Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book of the Year In this "stunning" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) picture book, award-winning nonfiction creator Meghan McCarthy tells the story of how motion... -
Weimar Slapstick and Hollywood Comedy Transformed Paul Flaig 9781350439153
Booksplease Price: £93.74From cabaret songs inspired by Buster Keaton to Mickey Mouse's diagnosis as a "melo-maniac," Weimar Slapstick and Hollywood Comedy Transformed explores the extraordinary appeal of American slapstick,... -
Childhoods of Famous People by Tomas Tůma
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.01We have all heard of famous people like Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Cleopatra, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and William Shakespeare. But what do we know about their childhoods? Play a game and guess... -
Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood by Eileen Whitfield
Booksplease Price: £25.21A biography of silent screen legend Mary Pickford. It aims to establish the star as a groundbreaking genius, casting fresh light on one of the most influential and least understood artists in the... -
Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause by Shawn Wen 9781941411483
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31An Indie Next Pick for July 2017 "7 Best Books of July," Men's Journal "10 Titles to Pick Up Now," O, The Oprah Magazine "Most Anticipated Books of 2017," The Millions "A unique, poetic critical... -
The Chaplin Machine: Slapstick, Fordism and the Communist Avant-Garde by Owen Hatherley
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £4.42Could Buster Keaton have starred in Battleship Potemkin? Did Trotsky plan to write the great Soviet comedy? And why did Lenin love circus clowns? The Chaplin Machine reveals the lighter side... -
A Grim Almanac of the Workhouse by Peter Higginbotham
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £11.62For two centuries, the shadow of the workhouse hung over Britain. The recourse of only the most desperate, dark and terrible tales of malnutrition, misery, mistreatment and murder ran like wildfire... -
Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse. The Ultimate History by David Gerstein 9783836583558
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £43.34On November 18, 1928, the world's most famous mouse made his very first public debut. Today, we celebrate 90+ years of Mickey in one of the most expansive illustrated publications on the Disney... -
Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Booksplease Price: £24.80The esteemed film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum has brought global cinema to American audiences for the last four decades. His incisive writings on individual filmmakers define film culture as a diverse... -
The Essential Directors: The Art and Impact of Cinema's Most Influential Filmmakers by Sloan De Forest
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.17For well over a century, those who create motion pictures have touched our hearts and souls; they have transported and transformed our minds, intoxicated and entranced our senses. One artist's vision...