Buster Keaton's "Sherlock Jr." focuses on a classic by one of America's greatest silent film geniuses, whose films still delight and amaze audiences worldwide. The essays included in this volume, written specially for this edition, examine this film within the context of Keaton's career, and also offer new perspectives on its unusual production history, Keaton's vaudeville background, and the differing views of "masculinity" that both celebrate and poke fun at cinema itself, among other topics.
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Buster Keaton's "Sherlock Jr." focuses on a classic by one of America's greatest silent film geniuses whose films still delight and amaze audiences worldwide. The essays included in this volume, written specially for this edition, examine this film within the context of Keaton's career, and also offer new perspectives on its unusual production history, Keaton's vaudeville background, and the differing views of "masculinity" which both celebrate and poke fun at cinema itself, among other topics.
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Worst sort of academic writing,
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Please, please, please avoid this book. If it was possible to give it NO stars, I would have done so. It is the most turgid academic bilge I have read in years. Why is there so much drivel written about Keaton? You are better off searching out David Robinson's KEATON, the best critial analysis of his films. Check this out on OOP booksearches instead; it probably costs the same as this wretched book and it is at least worth it.
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Analysis of Keaton Few and Far Between Boring Summaries,
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The other one-star reviews of this work were right on. It is, for lack of a better word, terrible. Various authors offer surprisingly similar takes on Buster Keaton's classic silent film, 'Sherlock Jr.' Unfortunately, these essays refrain from any deep analysis of the film (or other Keaton films for that matter) and instead choose to summarize, over and over again, the film across 191 excruciatingly boring pages. Avoid this book at all cost. Many, many other, better books analyze Keaton, his films, and his career better than this one, which fails miserably.
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They made Buster Keaton boring.,
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anarchistic comedy, vaudeville aesthetic, projection sequence, reel world, comedian comedy, sound comedy, vaudeville tradition, silent features, disrupted performance, silent comedy, interrupted performance, screen comedy, adult masculinity, stolen watch, pawn ticket, film comedy, classical cinema, great stone face, projection booth, frame story Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Buster Keaton, New York, Sherlock Holmes, The Play House, Back Stage, The General, Roscoe Arbuckle, The Silent Features, The Three Ages, The Three Keatons, Kevin Brownlow, The Navigator, Our Hospitality, Columbia University Press, Daniel Moews, Harold Lloyd, Keaton Through the Looking-Glass, The Red Mill, University of California Press, Hard Act, Joe Keaton, Classical Hollywood Comedy, Garrett Stewart, Indiana University Press, Mary Pickford New!
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anarchistic comedy, vaudeville aesthetic, projection sequence, reel world, comedian comedy, sound comedy, vaudeville tradition, silent features, disrupted performance, silent comedy, interrupted performance, screen comedy, adult masculinity, stolen watch, pawn ticket, film comedy, classical cinema, great stone face, projection booth, frame story Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Buster Keaton, New York, Sherlock Holmes, The Play House, Back Stage, The General, Roscoe Arbuckle, The Silent Features, The Three Ages, The Three Keatons, Kevin Brownlow, The Navigator, Our Hospitality, Columbia University Press, Daniel Moews, Harold Lloyd, Keaton Through the Looking-Glass, The Red Mill, University of California Press, Hard Act, Joe Keaton, Classical Hollywood Comedy, Garrett Stewart, Indiana University Press, Mary Pickford New!
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- What Made Pistachio Nuts? by Henry Jenkins on 5 pages
- The Silent Clowns by Walter Kerr on 5 pages
- Buster Keaton by David Robinson on 4 pages
- Classical Hollywood Comedy (AFI Film Readers) by Kristine Brunovska Karnick on 4 pages
- Sherlock Holmes and the Case of Dr. Freud by Michael Shepherd on 4 pages
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- The Theater and Cinema of Buster Keaton by Robert Knopf on 4 pages
- Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth by Paula Marantz Cohen in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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