Chaplin Books imprint: 51 books
Keeping Quiet
Visual Comedy in the Age of Sound
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Keeping Quiet is a love-letter to the modern sight-gag on film and television, tracing the history of physical clowning since the advent of sound. Taking up the story of visual humour where Paul Merton’s Silent Comedy leaves off, Julian Dutton charts the lives and work of all the great comedians who...
A Singapore Fling
An AB's Far-Flung Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Having survived the notorious Training Establishment HMS Ganges and ‘cut his teeth’ onboard HMS Bermuda, Peter Broadbent believed that he was equipped for anything the Royal Navy could throw at him.For 18 incident-filled months (1962-64) he ‘did his bit’ onboard HMS Lincoln caught up in the Malaysian...
The Future Revisited
Jules Verne on Screen in 1950s America
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
The Future Revisited examines Hollywood adaptations of Jules Verne stories and is an interdisciplinary study that offers a fresh perspective on film history, French literature, science fiction and America in the 1950s. It is a fascinating and authoritative account of how the stories of Jules Verne, a...
Next Train's Gone!
Will Hay: An Alternative View of British National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
In the 1930s, British film producers and critics championed the idea of ‘quality’ pictures - thoughtful, intelligent films that would project a particular and positive view of Britain. The result was to drive a wedge between ‘national’ cinema (which reflected middle-class values) and ‘popular’...
England's Secret Weapon
The Wartime Films of Sherlock Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
England's Secret Weapon explores the way Hollywood used Sherlock Holmes in a series of fourteen films spanning the years of World War II in Europe, from The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1939 to Dressed to Kill in 1946. Basil Rathbone’s portrayal of Holmes has influenced every actor who has since played...
Alone in the Crowd
Utopia and Dystopia on the Parisian Boulevards
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
Alone in the Crowd discusses the identity of nineteenth-century Paris, one of the most widely imaged cities in the modern world, whose most enduring attribute is that of a city of spectacle - a city of the pleasure of looking and being looked at simultaneously. Did Haussmann’s re-figuring of the city,...
by Michael Stephenson
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Fareham Revisited started out as a poem, which Michael Stephenson was inspired to write when he was reflecting on how much his home town had changed since the 1950s and 1960s. The poem and its sentiments struck a chord with so many people that he decided to write a book about Fareham that would evoke...
by Amanda J. Field
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
A company’s visual identity - as it appears in everything from business stationery and brochures, to product packaging and websites - is central to a company’s impact on the market. It’s the first impression a prospective customer gets: but for many businesses, design is seen as a ‘necessary...
Jobsworth
Confessions of the Man from the Council
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Malcolm Philips was a reluctant bureaucrat. When it was suggested that he give up selling ice-cream and go to work for the council, he protested that it would be full of jobsworths, skivers and crawlers. Truth to tell, however, he quickly fitted in among what his boss described as all the other ‘sods...
by Stephen Wade
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Wormwood Scrubs is Britain’s most ‘media-soaked’ prison. Its celebrity inmates have provided the tabloids with many good stories, from Rolling Stone Keith Richards - banged up for drugs offences - to notorious spy George Blake, whose escape enthralled the country. It has entertained the Master...
HMS Ganges Days
From Nozzer to Dabtoe in 386 days
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
When Peter Broadbent entered HMS Ganges, the toughest training establishment for young recruits to the Royal Navy, he was a naive 15-year-old Yorkshire schoolboy, entranced with the idea of seeing the world, proud of his drainpipe trousers and DA hairstyle, and eager to meet girls. In other words, he...
The Wonder of Woolies
Memories from both sides of the counter of Britain's best-loved store
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Do you remember Melba chocolate, spud guns, Embassy records, pick 'n' mix, broken biscuits, Homemaker china, Californian Poppy perfume, and Ladybird children's clothes? Then you will love the book that brings these, and many other memories, flooding back. The Wonder of Woolies is a celebration of that...
Black Antigone
Sophocles’ Tragedy Meets the Heartbeat of Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Black Antigone is a fresh and provocative interpretation of Sophocles’ tragedy, based on the belief that the potent rhythms of the African people were much more a part of ancient Greece than has ever been suggested - especially by the Victorian classics professors on whose translations of Antigone...
Inside King Kong
A Journal
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
When actor Will Shephard turned up at the Beverley Hills offices of Dino De Laurentiis, he expected to be interviewed for a modest role in the great man’s next production.“My agent told me on the phone that you were looking for actors who could do animal movements, but she didn’t tell me what the...