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Buster Keaton

Interviews

By: Buster Keaton

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Sweeney collects interviews from the beginning of Buster Keatons career in the 1920s and concludes with his 1950s and 60s television work. The pieces here provide a critical perspective on Keatons acting and cinematic techniques.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1578069637

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9781578069637

My Wonderful World Of Slapstick

By: Buster Keaton,Charles Samuels

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My Wonderful World Of Slapstick

By: Buster Keaton,Charles Samuels

Over half century ago the society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children complained to Mayor Van Wyck, of New York, that Joe Keaton, a vaudeville actor, was brutally mistreating his five-year old son. At each afternoon and evening performance the child, billed as “The Human Mop”, was slammed on the floor, hurled into the wings, and sometimes banged into bass drums. Unable to find a bruise or scratch on the lad, Mayor Van Wyck refused to ban the act. The “Human Mop” bounced on to worldwide fame as Buster Keaton, one of this century’s greatest comedians. In this intimate autobiography Buster Keaton tells his whole personal and professional story, beginning with his colourful and exciting childhood as the undentable tot in the “Three Keatons” whose proudest boast was having the rowdiest, roughest act in vaudeville. Buster has played with all the great ones, from George M. Cohen and Bojangles Robinson and Al Jolson to Jack Paar and Ed Sullivan and Red Skelton, during his sixty years as a star in vaudeville, silent and talking pictures, night clubs and television. Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle got him into the movies and taught him how to throw a custard pie. Buster could not even keep slapstick out of his eleven months as a draftee in our World War I army. He came out to help create the Golden Age of Comedy with his friends Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Arbuckle, Mack Sennett and the Keystone Cops. Marital troubles and alcoholism once got Buster down, but could not keep him down. MY WONDERFUL WORLD OF SLAPSTICK was written with the collaboration of Charles Samuels, co-author of His Eye Is On the Sparrow, Ethel Waters’ best-selling autobiography. Buster Keaton’s Life Story will enchant and thrill all those who enjoy looking past the glitter and the grease paint into a magnificent performer’s mind and heart.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1786254964

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9781786254962

BUSTER KEATON - MEMORIAS EN COLABORACION CON

CHARLES SAMUELS DE SLAPSTICK

By: Buster Keaton,Charles Samuels

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BUSTER KEATON - MEMORIAS EN COLABORACION CON

CHARLES SAMUELS DE SLAPSTICK

By: Buster Keaton,Charles Samuels

Aquellos que aún ríen con el Keaton de celuloide es seguro que tampoco podrán contenerse con este Keaton de carne y hueso, que se anunciaba como la «bayeta humana» y al que Joe Keaton, su padre, lanzaba, estrellaba, arrastraba y vapuleaba por los escenarios de los Estados Unidos de principios de siglo veinte haciendo las delicias del público. La hipócrita «Sociedad para la Prevención de la Crueldad con los Niños», que nunca comprendió que quien más disfrutaba con la aparente violencia del espectáculo era el pequeño Buster, trató una y otra vez de prohibir el número de los Keaton, contribuyendo a su bien ganada fama de ser el número más violento de la historia del vodevil. En Slapstick Keaton nos cuenta además sus inicios en el cine junto a Fatty Arbuckle, su paso por Francia como soldado en la Primera Guerra Mundial y sus elaboradas, carcajeantes y temidas bromas en Hollywood, pero también nos habla, y muy en serio, de su trabajo en el mundo del cine, del rodaje de sus películas, de su innombrable primera esposa y de su afición a la bebida. Por las páginas de este divertidísimo libro desfilan personajes tan míticos como el mago Houdini, Chaplin Griffith, los hermanos Marx, Greta Garbo, Samuel Goldwyn o Irving Thalberg. La mirada de Keaton, limpia e ingenua, nos revela cómo eran el verdadero Hollywood y sus primeros pobladores antes de que llegaran las hordas de ejecutivos y burócratas. Además de ser un libro cuyas páginas rebosan humor y amor al cine, Slapstick es también parte integrante, junto con sus películas, del legado de ese gran maestro de la comedia que fue Buster Keaton.

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8486702720

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9788486702724

Buster Keaton

Interviews

By: Buster Keaton

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Interviews

By: Buster Keaton

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My Wonderful World Of Slapstick

By: Buster Keaton,Charles Samuels

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La Mécanique du rire

Autobiographie d'un génie comique

By: Buster KEATON,Charles SAMUELS

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La Mécanique du rire

Autobiographie d'un génie comique

By: Buster KEATON,Charles SAMUELS

Compagnon de route de Charlie Chaplin, Mack Sennett, Fatty Arbuckle, Harold Lloyd ou des Marx Brothers, Buster Keaton commence sa carrière sur les planches à l’âge de trois ans, aux côtés de ses parents, avec lesquels il forme un trio comique. Il devient rapidement une petite vedette du burlesque et développe les capacités physiques qui lui permettront plus tard de réaliser les impressionnantes cascades de ses films.Dans La Mécanique du rire, Keaton raconte l’enfance et la scène, l’expérience de la guerre, l’entrée dans le cinéma, le succès et le passage à la réalisation, puis le fulgurant déclin peu après l’arrivée du cinéma parlant, en passant par les anecdotes de tournage ou les astuces filmiques de la mécanique keatonienne... Cette autobiographie d’une formidable modestie est le témoignage unique d’un homme qui a traversé Hollywood, de son essor à la fin de son âge d’or.

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294

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Capricci Editions

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9791023900156

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