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Camera man : Buster Keaton, the dawn of cinema, and the invention of the Twentieth Century / Dana Stevens.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stevens, Dana (Film critic), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Keaton, Buster, 1895-1966.
- Keaton, Buster.
- Motion picture actors and actresses--United States--Biography.
- Motion picture actors and actresses.
- Motion picture industry.
- History.
- United States.
- California--Los Angeles.
- Motion picture producers and directors--United States--Biography.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- Silent films--United States--History and criticism.
- Silent films.
- Motion picture industry--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 415 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- First Atria Books hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Atria Books, 2022.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- 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
- Elmer
- The road through the mountain
- Not a drinker, a drunk
- Old times
- The coming thing in entertainment
- Coda: Eleanor.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781501134210
- 1501134213
- Publisher Number:
- 99989953805
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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