Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Chaplin in context
  • Chaplin at Keystone, Griffith at Biograph
  • The slapstick exemption
  • Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, and the classical style
  • Part II. The silent era
  • Chaplin's filmmaking technique
  • Chaplin's filmmaking philosophy
  • A masterpiece of mediation: City lights
  • Part III. The sound era
  • Dangerous voices: modern times and the great dictator
  • Substituting speech for style: Monsieur Verdoux, Limelight, and A king in New York
  • Return to form: A countess from Hong Kong
  • Epilogue: the Chaplin century.