Named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, and
NPR In this genre-defying “new kind of history” (The New
Yorker), the chief film critic of Slate places comedy legend and
acclaimed filmmaker Buster Keaton’s unique creative genius in the
context of his time. Born the same year as the film industry in
1895, Buster Keaton began his career as the child star of a family
slapstick act reputed to be the most violent in vaudeville.
Beginning in his early twenties, he enjoyed a decade-long stretch
as the director, star, stuntman, editor, and all-around mastermind
of some of the greatest silent comedies ever made, including
Sherlock Jr., The General, and The Cameraman. Even through his dark
middle years as a severely depressed alcoholic finding work on the
margins of show business, Keaton’s life had a way of reflecting
the changes going on in the world around him. He found success in
three different mediums at their creative peak: first vaudeville,
then silent film, and finally the experimental early years of
television. Over the course of his action-packed seventy years on
earth, his life trajectory intersected with those of such
influential figures as the escape artist Harry Houdini, the
pioneering Black stage comedian Bert Williams, the television
legend Lucille Ball, and literary innovators like F. Scott
Fitzgerald and Samuel Beckett. In Camera Man, film critic Dana
Stevens pulls the lens out from Keaton’s life and work to look at
concurrent developments in entertainment, journalism, law,
technology, the political and social status of women, and the
popular understanding of addiction. With erudition and sparkling
humor, Stevens hopscotches among disciplines to bring us up to the
present day, when Keaton’s breathtaking (and sometimes
life-threatening) stunts remain more popular than ever as they
circulate on the internet in the form of viral gifs. Far more than
a biography or a work of film history, Camera Man is a wide-ranging
meditation on modernity that paints a complex portrait of a
one-of-a-kind artist.
General
| Imprint: |
Atria Books
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
April 2023 |
| Authors: |
Dana Stevens
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| Dimensions: |
213 x 137 x 28mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
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| Pages: |
448 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-5011-3420-3 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
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| LSN: |
1-5011-3420-5 |
| Barcode: |
9781501134203 |
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