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Paperback / softback. New. Filling a major gap in the critical canon, Keaton's Classic Shorts: Beyond the Laughter chronicles the rapid growth in the filmmaker's understanding of what makes both comedy and film successful. Keaton developed his major themes in these nineteen silent short films shot between 1920 and 1923, creating his persona "Buster" with his trademark stone face. These short films clearly indicate Keaton's love of the camera and his concern for composition, symmetry, and images that delight the eye and startle the mind. Oldham reconstructs each of these rarely seen films to enable the reader to "watch" Keaton's performance, devoting a separate chapter to each. She analyzes each film's strengths, weaknesses, and prevalent themes and threads. She also enables readers to plumb the depths of what seems to be surface comedy through philosophical, biographical, historical, and critical commentary, thus linking the shorts together…
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Keaton's Silent Shorts: Beyond the Laughter Paperback - 2010 - 2nd Edition
by Gabriella Oldham
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- Title Keaton's Silent Shorts: Beyond the Laughter
- Author Gabriella Oldham
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 2nd
- Edition 2
- Pages 408
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Southern Illinois University Press
- Date 2010-08
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780809330027 / 0809330024
- Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
- Dimensions 9.3 x 6.1 x 1 in (23.62 x 15.49 x 2.54 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Keaton, Buster - Criticism and interpretation
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010537752
- Dewey Decimal Code 791.430
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