James L. Neibaur, Terri Niemi

Buster Keaton's Silent Shorts

1920-1923

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Produktbeschreibung

In Buster Keaton's Silent Shorts: 1920-1923, James L. Neibaur and Terri Niemi provide a film-by-film assessment of Buster Keaton's short films produced in the early 1920s. The authors discuss the significance of each short to the Keaton filmography, as well as each film's importance to cinema. Offering a clear and in-depth perspective on 19 films, the authors explain what makes these shorts effective and why they're funny.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scarecrow Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 602g
• ISBN-13: 9780810887404
• ISBN-10: 0810887401
• Artikelnr.: 36691742

Autorenporträt

James L. Neibaur is a film historian and educator who has written several books on film, including Arbuckle and Keaton: Their 14 Film Collaborations (2005), Chaplin at Essanay: A Film Artist in Transition, 1915-1916 (2008), and The Fall of Buster Keaton (Scarecrow, 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction Prologue: The Buster Keaton Short Films The
High Sign (1920) One Week (1920) Convict 13 (1920) The Scarecrow (1920)
Neighbors (1920) The Haunted House (1921) Hard Luck (1921) The Goat (1921)
The Playhouse (1921) The Boat (1921) The Paleface (1922) Cops (1922) My
Wife's Relations (1922) The Blacksmith (1922) The Frozen North (1922)
Daydreams (1922) The Electric House (1922) The Balloonatic (1923) The Love
Nest (1923) Epilogue: Keaton after the Short Films Bibliography Index About
the Authors