Chaplin: A Life
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Chaplin: A Life is a 2008 biography
of the actor
Charlie Chaplin
by American psychoanalyst Stephen M. Weissman
. The book examines young Chaplin's early childhood experiences and the formative role they later played in shaping his art. An ex-London
street urchin, Chaplin used humor to creatively transform real life boyhood experiences of homelessness
into his screen character's picaresque adventures as the streetwise Little Tramp
.
Biography
A biography is a detailed description or account of someone's life. More than a list of basic facts , biography also portrays the subject's experience of those events...
of the actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I...
by American psychoanalyst Stephen M. Weissman
Stephen M. Weissman
Stephen M. Weissman is a psychoanalyst and biographer who has written and published Chaplin: A Life, His Brother's Keeper: A Psycho-biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Frederick Douglass: Portrait of A Black Militant.-External links:*...
. The book examines young Chaplin's early childhood experiences and the formative role they later played in shaping his art. An ex-London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
street urchin, Chaplin used humor to creatively transform real life boyhood experiences of homelessness
Homelessness
Homelessness describes the condition of people without a regular dwelling. People who are homeless are unable or unwilling to acquire and maintain regular, safe, and adequate housing, or lack "fixed, regular, and adequate night-time residence." The legal definition of "homeless" varies from country...
into his screen character's picaresque adventures as the streetwise Little Tramp
The Tramp
The Tramp, also known as The Little Tramp was Charlie Chaplin's most memorable on-screen character, a recognized icon of world cinema most dominant during the silent film era....
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