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Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase

Marion Meade
Buster Keaton Cut to the Chase Book PDF

Author : Marion Meade
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781497602311

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Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase by Marion Meade Pdf

An American icon, Joseph Frank “Buster” Keaton is easily acknowledged as one of the greatest filmmakers in early cinema and beyond. His elaborate slapstick made audiences scream with laughter. But, his stone face hid an internal turmoil. In BUSTER KEATON: CUT TO THE CHASE, biographer Marion Meade seamlessly lays out the life and works of this comedy genius who lacked any formal education. “Buster” made his name as a child of vaudeville, thrown around the stage by his father in a cartoon pantomime of very real abuse. The lessons he carried forward from that experience translated into some of the greatest silent films of all time. Keaton wrote, directed, performed, and edited dozens of features and shorts, including his masterpiece, The General. However, those early scars also led to decades of drinking and mistreatment of women. Keaton saw huge successes, Hollywood sex scandals, years of neglect from studios and audiences, and finally a shaky resurrection that assured his place in Hollywood’s film canon. Meticulously researched, this book brings together four years of research and hundreds of interviews to paint a nuanced portrait of a compelling artist. No comedy fan or film buff should miss this insider story of the man behind the stone face.

Buster Keaton

Marion Meade
Buster Keaton Book PDF

Author : Marion Meade
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997-08-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0306808021

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Buster Keaton by Marion Meade Pdf

Buster Keaton (1895–1966) was a brilliant comedian and filmmaker who conceived, wrote, directed, acted, and even edited most of his ten feature films and nineteen short comedies, which are perhaps the finest silent pictures ever made. With a face of stone and a mind that engineered breathtakingly intricate moments of slapstick, Keaton has become an icon of the American cinema. Marion Meade's definitive biography explores his often brutal childhood acting experiences, the making of his masterpieces, his shame at his own lack of education, his life-threatening alcoholism, and his turbulent marriages. Based on four years of research and more than 200 interviews with notables such as Billy Wilder, Leni Riefenstahl, Gene Kelly, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Irene Mayer Selznik, as well as members of Keaton's family who had previously refused to discuss him, Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase is a startling and moving account of the troubled life of a cinematic genius.

Buster Keaton

Edward McPherson
Buster Keaton Book PDF

Author : Edward McPherson
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571278800

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Buster Keaton by Edward McPherson Pdf

'Tracing Keaton's beginnings in vaudeville and how he eventually applied that form's traits to cinema, McPherson creates an excellent portrait of a formidable talent, also addressing the private demons that accelerated his eventual slide.' Empire'The author, rather like his subject, has the knack of sketching a poignant moment using minimum of sentimental flannel.' Sunday Telegraph 'McPherson wins one over because of his loving fan's attention to, and lively evocation of, the core of Keaton's achievement.' Telegraph'Graceful and charming... McPherson's account is animated by the same sort of colour and vitality as Buster's best work.' Scotsman

Camera Man

Dana Stevens
Camera Man Book PDF

Author : Dana Stevens
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501134197

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Camera Man by Dana Stevens Pdf

From the chief film critic of Slate comes a fresh and captivating biography on comedy legend and acclaimed filmmaker Buster Keaton that also explores the evolution of film from the silent era to the 1940s. As one of the most famous faces of silent cinema, Buster Keaton was and continues to be revered for his stoic expressions, clever visual gags, and acrobatic physicality in classics such as Sherlock Jr., The General, and The Cameraman. In this spirited biography, every aspect of Buster Keaton's astonishing life is explored, from his humble beginnings in vaudeville with his parents to his meteoric rise to Hollywood stardom during the silent era. Based on vigorous research of both Keaton and the film industry, it also delves into the dark sides of fame, such as Keaton's ill-advised businesses deals and alcoholism, to his unexpected resurgence in the 1940s as his contributions as both an actor and director were finally celebrated. This is a fascinating and uniquely astounding look at both the classic era of Hollywood and one of its most beloved stars.

Buster Keaton

Imogen Sara Smith
Buster Keaton Book PDF

Author : Imogen Sara Smith
Publisher : Gambit Publishing
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : Comedians
ISBN : 9780967591742

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Buster Keaton by Imogen Sara Smith Pdf

Smith tells of the most dazzling and enigmatic of the silent clowns, a man who began his career in vaudeville as one-third of the Three Keatons at age four only to fall from grace with shattering swiftness in the early 1930s before eventually making a comeback on television in the 1950s.

Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton Book PDF

Author : Buster Keaton
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1578069637

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Buster Keaton by Buster Keaton Pdf

Sweeney collects interviews from the beginning of Buster Keatons career in the 1920s and concludes with his 1950s and 60s television work. The pieces here provide a critical perspective on Keatons acting and cinematic techniques.

Buster Keaton's Crew

Lisle Foote
Buster Keaton s Crew Book PDF

Author : Lisle Foote
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786496839

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Buster Keaton's Crew by Lisle Foote Pdf

Buster Keaton told an interviewer in 1965, "When I'm working alone, the cameraman, the prop man, the electrician, these are my eyes out there.... They knew what they were talking about." Drawn from film trade magazines, newspapers, interviews and public records, this book tells the previously unpublished stories of the behind-the-scenes crew who worked on Keaton's silent films--like Elgin Lessley, who went from department store clerk to chief cameraman, and Fred Gabourie, who served as an army private in the Spanish American War before he became Keaton's technical director. "I'd ask, 'Did that work the way I wanted it to?' and they'd say yes or no," Keaton said of his crew. He couldn't have made his films without them.

The Fall of Buster Keaton

James L. Neibaur
The Fall of Buster Keaton Book PDF

Author : James L. Neibaur
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780810876835

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The Fall of Buster Keaton by James L. Neibaur Pdf

Born into a family of vaudevillians, Buster Keaton made his first film appearance in 1917 at the age of 21. By the early 1920s, he had established himself as one of the geniuses of silent cinema with such films as Sherlock, Jr. and The Navigator and his 1925 work, The General, placed at number 18 in the American Film Institute's poll of the 100 greatest features, the highest ranked silent film on the survey. But with the advent of sound in the late 1920s, silent stars like Keaton began to fall out of favor and the great comedian's career began to decline. In The Fall of Buster Keaton, James Neibaur assesses Keaton's work during the talking picture era, especially those made at MGM, Educational, and Columbia studios. While giving some attention to the early part of Keaton's career, Neibaur focuses on Keaton's contract work with the three studios, as well as his subsequent work as a gagman, supporting player, and television pitchman. The book also recounts the resurgence of interest in Keaton's silent work, which resulted in a lifetime achievement Oscar and worldwide recognition before his death in 1966. This fascinating account of an artist's struggle and triumph during the more challenging period of his career will be of interest to anyone wanting to learn about one of film's most influential performers.

The Theater and Cinema of Buster Keaton

Robert Knopf
The Theater and Cinema of Buster Keaton Book PDF

Author : Robert Knopf
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780691188461

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The Theater and Cinema of Buster Keaton by Robert Knopf Pdf

Famous for their stunts, gags, and images, Buster Keaton's silent films have enticed everyone from Hollywood movie fans to the surrealists, such as Dalí and Buñuel. 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 theatrics would serve Keaton well as a film director and star. By isolating elements of vaudeville within works that have previously been considered "classical," Knopf reevaluates Keaton's films and how they function. The book combines vivid visual descriptions and illustrations that enable us to see Keaton at work staging his memorable images and gags, such as a three-story wall collapsing on him (Steamboat Bill, Jr., 1928) and an avalanche of boulders chasing him down a mountainside (Seven Chances, 1925). Knopf explains how Keaton's stunts and gags served as fanciful departures from his films' storylines and how they nonetheless reinforced a strange sense of reality, that of a machine-like world with a mind of its own. In comparison to Chaplin and Lloyd, Keaton made more elaborate use of natural locations. The scene in The Navigator, for example, where Buster brandishes a swordfish to fend off another swordfish derives much of its power from actually being shot under water. Such "hyper-literalism" was but one element of Keaton's films that inspired the surrealists. Exploring Keaton's influence on Salvador Dalí, Luis Buñuel, Federico García Lorca, and Robert Desnos, Knopf suggests that Keaton's achievement extends beyond Hollywood into the avant-garde. The book concludes with an examination of Keaton's late-career performances in Gerald Potterton's The Railrodder and Samuel Beckett's Film, and locates his legacy in the work of Jackie Chan, Blue Man Group, and Bill Irwin.

Buster Keaton in His Own Time

Wes D. Gehring
Buster Keaton in His Own Time Book PDF

Author : Wes D. Gehring
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476633268

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Buster Keaton in His Own Time by Wes D. Gehring Pdf

"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!

The Fixers

E.J. Fleming
The Fixers Book PDF

Author : E.J. Fleming
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786454952

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The Fixers by E.J. Fleming Pdf

Eddie Mannix and Howard Strickling are virtually unknown outside of Hollywood and little-remembered even there, but as General Manager and Head of Publicity for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, they lorded over all the stars in Hollywood's golden age from the 1920s through the 1940s--including legends like Garbo, Dietrich, Gable and Garland. When MGM stars found themselves in trouble, it was Eddie and Howard who took care of them--solved their problems, hid their crimes, and kept their secrets. They were "the Fixers." At a time when image meant everything and the stars were worth millions to the studios that owned them, Mannix and Strickling were the most important men at MGM. Through a complex web of contacts in every arena, from reporters and doctors to corrupt police and district attorneys, they covered up some of the most notorious crimes and scandals in Hollywood history, keeping stars out of jail and, more importantly, their names out of the papers. They handled problems as diverse as the murder of Paul Bern (husband of MGM's biggest star, Jean Harlow), the studio-directed drug addictions of Judy Garland, the murder of Ted Healy (creator of The Three Stooges) at the hands of Wallace Beery, and arranging for an unmarried Loretta Young to adopt her own child--a child fathered by a married Clark Gable. Through exhaustive research and interviews with contemporaries, this is the never-before-told story of Eddie Mannix and Howard Strickling. The dual biography describes how a mob-related New Jersey laborer and the quiet son of a grocer became the most powerful men at the biggest studio in the world.

A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes

Anonim
A Dictionary of the Avant Gardes Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136806209

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A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes by Anonim Pdf

A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes recognizes that change is a driving force in all the arts. It covers major trends in music, dance, theater, film, visual art, sculpture, and performance art--as well as architecture, science, and culture.

Camera Man

Dana Stevens
Camera Man Book PDF

Author : Dana Stevens
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501134203

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Camera Man by Dana Stevens Pdf

They were calling it the Twentieth Century -- "She is a little animal, surely" -- "He's my son, and I'll break his neck any way I want to" -- "The locomotive of juveniles" -- A little hell-raising Huck Finn -- The boy who couldn't be damaged -- "Make me laugh, Keaton" -- Speed mania in the kingdom of shadows -- Pancakes at Childs -- Comique -- Roscoe -- Brooms -- Mabel at the wheel -- Famous players in famous plays -- Home, made -- Rice, shoes, and real estate -- The shadow stage -- Battle-scarred risibilities -- One for you, one for me -- The "darkie shuffle" -- The collapsing façade -- Grief slipped in -- The road through the mountain -- Not a drinker, a drunk -- Old times -- The coming thing in entertainment -- Coda: Eleanor.

Film – An International Bibliography

Malte Hagener,Michael Töteberg
Film An International Bibliography Book PDF

Author : Malte Hagener,Michael Töteberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783476036865

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Film – An International Bibliography by Malte Hagener,Michael Töteberg Pdf

Kommentierte Bibliografie. Sie gibt Wissenschaftlern, Studierenden und Journalisten zuverlässig Auskunft über rund 6000 internationale Veröffentlichungen zum Thema Film und Medien. Die vorgestellten Rubriken reichen von Nachschlagewerk über Filmgeschichte bis hin zu Fernsehen, Video, Multimedia.

The General

Peter Krämer
The General Book PDF

Author : Peter Krämer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781844579174

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The General by Peter Krämer Pdf

Offering a fresh perspective on The General, arguably one of the most successful American films of the silent era, this insightful text analyses its initial critical reception and the thematic and stylistic characteristics of the film that made it difficult for critics to appreciate at the time, but led to its celebration by later generations.