BOOKS: Biographical
My Autobiography
Chaplin’s film career as the Little Tramp adored by the whole world is the stuff of legend, but this frank autobiography shows another side
His Life and Art
The greatest icon in the history of cinema, Charlie Chaplin lived one of the most dramatic rags to riches stories ever told.
A Comedian sees the world
Re-issue of Charlie Chaplin’s “A Comedian Sees the World” with annotations and hyper-textual enhancements by Lisa Stein [...]
Genius of the Cinema
Noted film historian and silent comedy authority, Jeffrey Vance draws on exhaustive research and interviews with those who knew Chaplin to produce this definitive illustrated account [...]
Charlie Chaplin: Interviews
“All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman, and a pretty girl.”[...]
Chaplin Stage by Stage
Never before has so much original research been done to establish just where, when, and with whom, Chaplin spent his time on the stage, before going into films [...]
Chaplin and Agee
“Chaplin and Agee” charts the friendship between James Agee, author of “Let us now Praise Famous men” and the pulitzer prize – winning “A Death in the Family” and screenwriter for classic american films, including the “African Queen”, and Charles Chaplin [...]
BOOKS: Pictures
The unparalleled career of the Little Tramp
Charles Chaplin’s Little Tramp is the supreme icon of motion pictures—still recognized and loved throughout the world, more than 90 years since he first burst on the screen.
A Photo Diary
A few years ago Michel Comte discovered that the Chaplin office held an extensive photo archive, consisting of thousands of glass negatives, negatives and photographic prints
Charlie Chaplin Movie Posters
In this book for the first time, the astonishing career of Charlie Chaplin is viewed through the posters used to advertise his movies.
Silent traces
Discovering early Hollywood through the films of Charlie Chaplin: Uncovering tidbits of the history of Los Angeles and the early film industry that are hidden within Charlie Chaplin’s timeless films [...]
BOOKS: Essays
Charlie Chaplin par André Bazin
L’oeuvre de Chaplin, Bazin la connaissait comme sa poche, on s’en rendra compte en lisant ce livre [...]
Limelight: Chaplin Project n°1
The original archive material, only available to a few film historians up to now, will be published and reproduced for the first time in a series of monographic volumes.
Modern Times: Chaplin Project n°2
The book traces back the history of “Modern Times” from its planning stage to its distribution, through the analysis of more than a hundred pages from the Chaplin archive, here published for the very first time.[...]
The Search for Charlie Chaplin
The book contains the DVD of the documentary “The Unknown Chaplin [...]
City Lights
a careful history of the film’s production and reception, as well as a close examination of the film itself[...]
The Great Dictator: Chaplin Project Notebook n°1
Articles and archive documents on “The Great Dictator”
Chaplin Facing History
This book shows how in the “Great Dictator” Chaplin exposes his personal world to the pressure of world events [...]
Chaplin and American Culture
This is the first book focusing on the relationship between Chaplin and American public that was perhaps the stormiest in the History of American Stardom.[...]
The Essential Chaplin
Perspectives on the life and art of the great comedian [...] By Richard Schickel, the distingushed film critic.
Chaplin’s Limelight and the music hall tradition
Charles Spencer Chaplin was a stage performer before he was a filmmaker, and it was in English music hall that he learned the rudiments of his art. The last film he made in the United States, “LimeLights” was a tribute to the music hall days of his youth.
Chaplin Aujourd’hui
Cet ouvrage collectif des « cahiers du cinéma » se propose de remonter du mythe au créateur, du personnage de Charlot au cinéaste Chaplin [...]
Mort de Charlot
Ces textes d’Albert Cohen, ont été publiés dans les années 20 dans la nouvelle Revue Française et dans la Revue Juive [...]
Chaplin: The Dictator and the Tramp
The Dictator and the Tramp is a collection of essays about Charles Chaplin (1889-1977)[...]
Silent Comedy by Paul Merton
“The tiresomely idiotic debate on Keaton versus Chaplinis, in my experience, overwhelmingly used by proponents of Buster to attempt to rubbish Charlie…”
