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Article: Rediscovering Charlie Chaplin.(Homevideo)(Critical Essay)
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- September 22, 2004
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Although I suspect many would dispute this characterization, I think the period we're now living through may well be the first in which scholars have finally figured out a good way of teaching film history. And significantly, this discovery isn't necessarily coming out of academic film study, even if a few academics are making major contributions to it.
I'm speaking, of course, about the didactic materials accompanying the rerelease of some classic films on DVD. Three examples that I believe illustrate my thesis especially well are 1) the various commentaries or audiovisual essays offered by Yuri Tsivian on DVD editions of Mad Love: The Films of Evgeni Bauer ...