Buster Keaton In His Own Time: What The Responses Of 1920S Critics Reveal

Gehring remains supreme in film comedy scholarship--Choice Buster Keaton "can impress a weary world with the vitally important fact that life, after all, is a foolishly inconsequential affair," wrote critic Robert Sherwood in 1918. A century later Keaton, with his darkly comic "theater of the absurd," speaks to audiences like no other silent comedian. If you thought you knew Keaton--think again!

• | Author: Wes D. Gehring
• | Publisher: McFarland & Company
• | Publication Date: Mar 14, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 242 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Biography & Autobiography
• | ISBN-10: 1476666806
• | ISBN-13: 9781476666808