Wednesday, January 7, 2009

SS Course 2009: Chaplin's Harrowing Laughter

Course 151
Date: 19–23 January

Time: 8.00 pm
Full Price: R270,00 Staff: R135,00 Reduced: R70,00

Chaplin's Harrowing Laughter
Presented by Guy Willoughby, writer, actor and lecturer

During the long filmic career of Charlie Chaplin (1914–67), he witnessed cinema transformed from an obscure fad to a central creative force in world culture. Chaplin had everything to do with this. His brilliant comic gifts are legendary, but it is also significant that he had total control of his product from 1923 on and an adroit grasp of the power of commercial media to change – literally – the way we see. This overview of Chaplin’s life and work will examine his greatest movies. It will consider how the cinema’s finest comic actor-writer shaped his times and how the times, in turn, shaped Chaplin.

Please note that before each lecture, relevant films (or
extracts from films) will be screened at 6.00 pm for participants in this course
.


LECTURE TITLES
  1. Enter the Tramp (1914–22).
  2. Tramp triumphant (1925–31).
  3. Chaplin’s modern times (1936–46).
  4. The long goodbye (1952–67).
  5. Reprise: Chaplin in world culture.

Recommended reading
  • Chaplin, C. My Autobiography. Simon & Shuster, 1964.
  • Kimber, J. The Art of Charlie Chaplin. Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.
  • Robinson, D. Chaplin: His Life and Art. Collins, 1985.

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