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Chaplin Conference Papers
Several important themes were built into the call for papers and the selection which resulted from an initial one day symposium held in 2004. The intention was to focus on new research with new perspectives, to look at the relationship between Chaplin and his country of birth, to explore the diversity of Chaplin's influence and to examine the correlation between the icon of the tramp figure and modernism. In addition the intention was to bring newly restored film material to the academic community and to foster discussion with the archivists. Several of the conference papers are published in full. Not all papers are available as they are scheduled for publication in various books and journals. Where possible we will provide links and information on where these are to be found.
Conference schedule (PDF, 37k)
Abstracts in order of the conference schedule (PDF, 150k)
Chaplin and Imitation
by David Trotter (PDF, 43kb)
An edited extract from the forthcoming publication by Blackwell Publishing (available January 2007):
Cinema and Modernism
ISBN 10: 1-4051-5982-0
ISBN 13: 978-1-4051-5982-1
Presentation of the Cineteca di Bologna Chaplin Project
by Cecilia Cenciarelli (PDF, 291kb)
Chaplin on Chaplin: Writings on Film
by Sidney Gottlieb (PDF, 59kb)
Chaplin and the body of modernity
by Tom Gunning (PDF, 107kb)
From Chaplin to Kabuki
by Ono Hiroyuki (PDF, 86kb)
The (Un)Timeliness of Satire
The Reception of the The Great Dictator in West Germany, 1952-1973
by Peter Krämer (PDF, 180kb)
Movies, Director/ Performers, and Cultural History
Conceptualizing Chaplin and American Culture
by Charles Maland (PDF, 110kb)
Send in the Clones
by Ulrich Ruedel (PDF, 67kb)
The Two Spanish Lives of 'Charlot'
by Daniel Sánchez Salas (PDF, 56kb)
Additional conference papers are published elsewhere
The Big Show: British Cinema Culture in the Great War 1914-1918. Michael Hammond Lecturer at University of Southampton and Academic Advisor on the bfi Chaplin Conference writes about the reception of Chaplin films in Southampton during World War One.
Steve Ross will be publishing his paper in a revised version as chapter 1 in the book Hollywood Left and Right: How Move Stars Shaped American Politics (forthcoming Oxford University Press).
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