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The Theater and Cinema of Buster Keaton
Robert Knopf
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Description for The Theater and Cinema of Buster Keaton
Paperback. Famous for their stunts, gags, and images, Buster Keaton's silent films have enticed everyone from Hollywood movie fans to the surrealists, such as Dali and Bunuel. This book looks at the appeal of Keaton's genius, considering his vaudeville roots and his ability to integrate this aesthetic into the techniques of classical Hollywood cinema. Num Pages: 232 pages, 30 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 18. Weight in Grams: 336.
Famous for their stunts, gags, and images, Buster Keaton's silent films have enticed everyone from Hollywood movie fans to the surrealists, such as Dali and Bunuel. Here Robert Knopf offers an unprecedented look at the wide-ranging appeal of Keaton's genius, considering his vaudeville roots and his ability to integrate this aesthetic into the techniques of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1920s. When young Buster was being hurled about the stage by his comically irate father in the family's vaudeville act, The Three Keatons, he was perfecting his acrobatic skills, timing, visual humor, and trademark "stone face." As Knopf demonstrates, such ... Read more
Famous for their stunts, gags, and images, Buster Keaton's silent films have enticed everyone from Hollywood movie fans to the surrealists, such as Dali and Bunuel. Here Robert Knopf offers an unprecedented look at the wide-ranging appeal of Keaton's genius, considering his vaudeville roots and his ability to integrate this aesthetic into the techniques of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1920s. When young Buster was being hurled about the stage by his comically irate father in the family's vaudeville act, The Three Keatons, he was perfecting his acrobatic skills, timing, visual humor, and trademark "stone face." As Knopf demonstrates, such ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691004426
SKU
V9780691004426
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About Robert Knopf
Robert Knopf is Assistant Professor of Theater at the University of Michigan. With Bert Cardullo, he is the co-editor of Theater of the Avant-Garde, 1890-1950 (forthcoming).
Reviews for The Theater and Cinema of Buster Keaton
"Knopf offers a timely, academic appreciation of the great stoneface, examining why Keaton's films intrigued surrealists and intellectuals... Knopf also does an excellent job of tracing the vaudevillian roots of Keaton's stunts and gags."
Library Journal "The remarkable thing about Buster Keaton is that within the world of film he could do anything. [The book] is a concise synthesis of critical ... Read more
Library Journal "The remarkable thing about Buster Keaton is that within the world of film he could do anything. [The book] is a concise synthesis of critical ... Read more