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.

Contributor:

• ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Keaton, Buster, 1895-1966.
• 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.