[Chaplin, Charlie. (1889-1977)] [Constructivism] Shlovskii, Viktor. (1893 - 1984) (Editor)
Charli Chaplin [sic]
Leningrad, USSR: Izdatel’stvo “Atenei" [Atheneum]. 1925. Sbornik pod redaktsiei Viktora Shklovskogo. Chaplin o sebe. Novoe v fil’makh Chaplina. Chaplin i “Kid.” Chaplin-Mnimyi graf. Chaplin; politseiskii. Linder o Chapline. Kak rabotaet Chaplin. Paperback. 18 cm. 102, (2)pp. Texts by K. Tereshkovich, P. Bogatyrev, Viktor Shklovskii, Maks Linder. Original decorative wraps printed in black and green with a stylized caricature portrait of Chaplin. Frontis with mounted halftone photograph of the actor. Edges somewhat chipped, covers reinforced archivally on interiors, small ink notation dated 1927 to lower rear cover, overall in very good condition. No copies recorded in OCLC.The editor of the present volume, Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky, was a Russian and Soviet literary theorist, critic, writer, and pamphleteer and is one of the major figures associated with Russian formalism. Threatened by arrest for his heretical views and activities, he fled to Berlin in Spring 1922. There he published an essay on Charlie Chaplin and a book called Literatura i kinematograf (1923; Literature and cinematography), in which he applied his theories about literature to the new medium. After his return to the Soviet Union in Fall 1923, he worked closely with the important film directors of the 1920s, especially Sergei Eisenstein, whose theories of montage owe something to Shklovskii’s influence. (20848)