Keaton's Silent Shorts: Beyond the Laughter Tapa blanda - 2010 - 2nd Edición

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… Leer más

Southern Illinois Univ Pr, 2010. Paperback. New. 2nd edition. 396 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.00 inches.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.