Buster Keaton
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Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life
By James CurtisIt was James Agee who christened Buster Keaton "The Great Stone Face." Keaton's face, Agee wrote, ranked almost with Lincoln's as an early American archetype; it was haunting, handsome, almost beautiful, yet it was also irreducibly funny.
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Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life
By James Curtis"It is brilliant—I was totally absorbed, couldn't stop reading it and was very sorry when it ended."—Kevin Brownlow It was James Agee who christened Buster Keaton “The Great Stone Face.” Keaton’s face, Agee wrote, "ranked almost ...
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Buster Keaton: Interviews
By Buster KeatonInterviews from the beginning of Buster Keaton's career in the 1920s to the year before his death are brought together in a volume that provides a critical perspective on his acting and cinematic techniques and includes pieces by Studs ...
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Buster Keaton: Tempest In A Flat Hat
By Edward McPhersonWriter—and avowed fan—Edward McPherson takes the reader on a fascinating journey through Buster Keaton’s life and times, from the vaudeville stage to the glittering screens of early Hollywood, where he rivaled even Charlie Chaplin as ...
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Buster Keaton
By Joan M. Minguet, Joan M. Minguet i BatlloriBuster Keaton fue un payaso, un gran payaso.
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Buster Keaton: The Persistence of Comedy
By Imogen Sara SmithSmith 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 ...
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Buster Keaton: The Later Years
By chris wadeIn the 1950s and 60s, he kept on working steadily on TV, in commercials, telefilms, mainstream movies and independent features. This book explores the final years, and days, of Buster Keaton.
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Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase
By Marion MeadeJoseph Frank "Buster" Keaton, one of the most distinguished filmmakers in cinematic history, was a brilliant comedian whose films seem untouched by time. Marion Meade's biography goes behind the scenes...
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Buster Keaton
By David RobinsonBuster Keaton
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Buster Keaton: Tempest In A Flat Hat
By Edward McPhersonEdward McPherson traces Buster Keaton's career from his early days in vaudeville--where as a rambunctious five-year-old his father threw him around the stage--to his becoming one of the brightest stars...
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Buster Keaton: Cut To The Chase
By Marion MeadeBuster 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.
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Buster Keaton
By Tomàs Pérez TurrentBuster Keaton
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Buster Keaton
By David RobinsonBuster Keaton
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Buster Keaton: Tempest in a Flat Hat
By Edward McPherson'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.