Chaplin: A Life
Stephen Weissman, . . Arcade, $27.99 (315pp) ISBN 978-1-55970-892-0
Weissman, professor at the Washington School of Psychiatry, examines Charlie Chaplin's life and work from a psychoanalytical perspective. Believing in “using a life to read a film and a film to read a life,” Weissman focuses on Chaplin's childhood and early career, giving scant attention to his later adult life. Most telling is the relationship with his mother. Her madness, brought on by starvation and syphilis, Weissman believes, manifests itself in Chaplin's films with a recurring theme: the rescue of a downtrodden female. For example,
Reviewed on: 10/13/2008
Genre: Nonfiction
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