Note: This video is from the Fall 2007 class.
This lecture continues discussion of Charlie Chaplin, comparing his films to those of Buster Keaton.
Outline:
- Keaton vs. Chaplin
- Three passages
- Cops (1922)
- The Gold Rush (1925)
- City Lights (1931)
- Modern Times (1936
- Context
- A culminating film
- The gamin
- Sound
- Structure
- Chaplin's complexity