City lights
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City lights
(BFI film classics)
British Film Institute, 2007
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 127-128
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In 1967, Charlie Chaplin told, "I think I like "City Lights" the best of all my films." Based on archival research of Chaplin's production records, this work offers a history of the film's production and reception, as well as an examination of the film itself, with special attention to the sources of the final scene's emotional power.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1. The Ending
2. Chaplin's Hollywood Roots
3. Three Preceding Features
4. Divorce and Tax Problems
5. Hannah
6. The Challenge of the Talkies
7. Refining a Story
8. The Production Record in Perspective
9. A Troubled Production: To November 1929
10. The Production Clarifies: From November 1929
11. Chaplin, the Jazz Age, and Submerged Autobiography
12. The Narrative Structure
13. The Opening Scenes: A Closer Look
14. Contrasting Moral Universes
15. Final Sequence: Part One
16. Final Sequence: The Heartbreaking Ending
17. Release and Reception
18. The Legacy of City Lights
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