Buster Keaton

Tempest in a Flat Hat

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by Edward McPherson

Type

Biographies

Subject

Director > Buster Keaton

Keywords

Buster Keaton, biography

Publishing date

2007

Publisher

Faber & Faber

1st publishing

2004

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 304 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-1-55704-664-2

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Book Presentation:
Edward McPherson traces Buster Keaton's career from his early days in vaudeville - the peak of his career. Taking what he knew from vaudeville - ingenuity, athleticism, audacity and wit - Keaton applied it to the new medium of film, and, between 1920 and 1929, was rivalled only by Chaplin as the master of silent comedy. The book celebrates Keaton in his prime - as a prodigious acrobat, brilliant writer, gag-man, director and actor - while also revealing the pressures in his personal and professional life that led to his collapse into drunkenness and despair. McPherson describes the behind-the-scenes life of Keaton with the kind of exuberance and narrative energy displayed by the films themselves.

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