英国美国社会文化 PPT 默剧Mime artist

1、电气1302 Definition Origin Development Mime Charles Chaplin His famous films Master of French Modern Mime Etienne Decroux defined Mime for the Art of Silent. A mime or mime artist is someone who uses mime as a theatrical medium or as a performance art, involving miming, or the acting out a story throu

2、gh body motions, without use of speech. In earlier times, in English, such a performer would typically be referred to as a mummer. Miming is to be distinguished from silent comedy, in which the artist is a seamless character in a film or sketch. Origin The performance of mime originates at its earli

3、est in Ancient Greece; the name is taken from a single masked dancer called Pantomimus, although performances were not necessarily silent. Development In Medieval Europe, early forms of mime such as mummer plays and later dumbshows evolved. In early nineteenth century Paris, Jean-Gaspard Deburau sol

4、idified the many attributes that we have come to know in modern timesthe silent figure in whiteface.Charles Chaplin Sir Charles Spencer Charlie Chaplin, KBE (16 April 1889 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor and filmmaker who rose to fame in the silent film era. Chaplin became a worldwide i

5、con through his screen persona the Tramp and is considered one of the most important figures of the film industry.1 His career spanned more than 75 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, and encompassed both adulation and controversy. Chaplin wrote, directe

6、d, produced, edited, starred in, and composed the music for most of his films. He was a perfectionist, and his financial independence enabled him to spend years on the development and production of a picture. His films are characterised by slapstick combined with pathos, typified in the Tramps strug

7、gles against adversity. Many contain social and political themes, as well as autobiographical elements.Chaplins silent films typically follow the Tramps efforts to survive in a hostile world.The character lives in poverty and is frequently treated badly, but remains kind and upbeat; defying his social position, he strives to be seen as a gentleman.As Chaplin said in 1925, The whole point of the Little Fellow is that no matte