ISBN: 1559708921
Author: Stephen Weissman
Language: English
Publisher: Arcade Publishing; First Edition edition (November 24, 2008)
Pages: 315
Category: Arts & Literature
Subcategory: Biography
Rating: 4.2
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Size Fb2: 1889 kb
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FREE shipping on qualifying offers. Chaplin is arguably the single most important artist produced by the cinema, wrote film critic Andrew Sarris. Born in London in 1889.
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Chaplin: A Life - Stephen Weissman. Born in London in 1889, Charlie Chaplin grew up in dire poverty. Both his parents were in show business, but severe alcoholism cut short his father’s flourishing career, and his beloved mother first lost her voice, then lost her mind to syphilis. Charlie at age seven was committed to the Hanwell School for Orphans and Destitute Children. How then did this poor, lonely child become such an extraordinary comedian, known and celebrated worldwide? Chaplin cut his teeth in British music halls, but it was America that made him.
A fascinating psychological portrait of Charlie Chaplin and the painful childhood that shaped his comedic .
A fascinating psychological portrait of Charlie Chaplin and the painful childhood that shaped his comedic masterpieces (Booklist). After nearly a century, Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp is still one of the most identifiable figures in the history of film. In this singular biography of Chaplin, Dr. Stephen M. Weissman adapts his professional understanding of the relationship between childhood experience and adult creativity to provide an in-depth look at the screen legend-both his conscious and unconscious distortions of the past in the name of art, and the turbulent, seemingly inescapable grimness of the era that shaped him.
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Born in London in 1889, Charlie Chaplin grew up in dire poverty . So when I passed by the book Chaplin: A Life by Stephen Weissman I picked it up out of curiosity. One of the things that intrigued me the most about Chaplin had been the love story of this girl he saw only a few times and couldn't forget for the rest of his life. There was something romantic and tragic about this that appealed to the story teller in me.
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Charlie Chaplin's film heroines. In The Essential Chaplin, ed. R. Schickel. Chaplin: His Life and Art. New York: McGraw-Hill. IL 60637 E-mail: htrosman. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2006, pp. 65–75. Jan 1985.
Chaplin - Stephen Weissman. Weissman weaves a psychologically astute narrative of Chaplin’s life and art, brilliantly exploring the relationships between experience and creativity.
Read unlimited books and audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. Chaplin - Stephen Weissman. A mixture of gritty social history, romance, and medical science, the book begins with Weissman dissecting Chaplin’s parents’ tempestuous courtship and disastrous marriage, coming to surprising conclusions. He then takes us into the world of the Victorian music hall.
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Read Chaplin, by Stephen Weissman online on Bookmate – Chaplin is arguably the single most important artist produced by the cinema, wrote film critic Andrew Sarris. Born in London in 1889, Charlie. Chaplin is arguably the single most important artist produced by the cinema, wrote film critic Andrew Sarris. Severe alcoholism cut short his father’s flourishing career, and his beloved mother first lost her voice, then her mind, to syphilis. How did this poor, lonely child, committed to the Hanwell School for the Orphaned and Destitute, become such an extraordinary comedian, known and celebrated worldwide?
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