Chaplin: A Life is a 2008 biography of the actor Charlie Chaplin by American psychoanalyst Stephen M. Weissman. [1]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.

Chaplin: A Life
AuthorStephen M. Weissman
LanguageEnglish
SubjectBiography
PublisherArcade Publishing
Publication date
October 2008
Publication placeUnited States
Media typeHardcover
ISBN978-1-55970-892-0
OCLC225870336
791.4302/8092 B 22
LC ClassPN2287.C5 W45 2008

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