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Books on: Keaton silent comedies

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Keaton's Silent Shorts: Beyond the Laughter

Book by Gabriella Oldham; Southern Illinois University Press, 1996

Subjects:

Keaton, Buster--1895-1966--Criticism And Interpretation

Collections: Entire Library

...independent short silent comedies from 1920 to 1923, with Keaton as director...into feature comedies, and Keaton graduated...nineteen silent two-reelers...device that Keaton sometimes used in his silent comedies, the "deus...
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A Guide to Silent Westerns

Book by Larry Langman; Greenwood Press, 1992

Subjects:

Silent Films--Catalogs, Western Films--Catalogs

Collections: Entire Library

This comprehensive film guide lists the screen credits and provides synopses of more than 5,400 silent western features, documentaries, shorts and serials released from the 1890s through 1930. These westerns came from both the major and lesser known American film studios, many long defunct. Four ...
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This comprehensive film guide lists the screen credits and provides synopses of more than 5,400 silent western features, documentaries, shorts and serials released from the 1890s through 1930. These westerns came from both the major and lesser known American film studios, many long defunct. Four appendices include a list of all the serials included in the book, a list of all the northern westerns, a list of the titles and stars of the major western series, and a list of the important western epics. The work is completed with an actor/director/screenwriter index.
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American Film Cycles: The Silent Era

Book by Larry Langman; Greenwood Press, 1998

Subjects:

Fiction, Silent Films--Catalogs

Collections: Entire Library

Examining 40 cycles or themes and more than 1,000 silent films, the author attempts to discern how the screen reflected contemporary social, political, and national trends during the silent years. The period has been divided into the early silent years (1900-1919), with films of one or two reels ...
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Examining 40 cycles or themes and more than 1,000 silent films, the author attempts to discern how the screen reflected contemporary social, political, and national trends during the silent years. The period has been divided into the early silent years (1900-1919), with films of one or two reels dominating for the first 15 years, and the later silent period (1920-1929), known as the Golden Age of the Silents, in which feature-length films dominated. One of the author's goals is to establish the success, and sometimes the failure, of these films to capture the social and political times of their release. Other film books approach the dramas and comedies by genre, not by specific cycles, which makes this work unique.
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Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema

Book by Donald W. McCaffrey, Christopher P. Jacobs; Greenwood Press, 1999

Subjects:

Silent Films--United States--History And Criticism

Collections: Entire Library

The latest offering from the Reference Guides to the World's Cinema series, this critical survey of key films, actors, directors, and screenwriters during the silent era of the American cinema offers a wide-ranging portrait of the motion picture production of silent film. Detailed but concise ...
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The latest offering from the Reference Guides to the World's Cinema series, this critical survey of key films, actors, directors, and screenwriters during the silent era of the American cinema offers a wide-ranging portrait of the motion picture production of silent film. Detailed but concise alphabetical entries include over 100 film titles and 150 personnel. An introductory chapter explores the early growth of the new silent medium while the final chapter of this encyclopedic study examines the sophistication of the silent cinema. These two chapters outline film history from its beginnings until the perfection of synchronized sound, and reflect upon the themes and techniques established with the silent cinema that continued into the sound era through modern times.
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Silent Film & the Triumph of the American Myth

Book by Paula Marantz Cohen; Oxford University Press, 2001

Subjects:

Silent Films--United States--History And Criticism

Collections: Entire Library

Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth is a broad cultural study that connects the rise of film to the rise of America as a cultural center and world power in the twentieth century. Cohen argues that through the medium of film, America was able to sever its literary and linguistic ties to ...
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Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth is a broad cultural study that connects the rise of film to the rise of America as a cultural center and world power in the twentieth century. Cohen argues that through the medium of film, America was able to sever its literary and linguistic ties to Europe, assert its cultural independence, and forge a unique form of cultural expression. Silent films drew on elements developed in popular forms of representation like photography, landscape panoramas, and vaudeville performance to create a medium that more accurately represented the American experience.
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Journal Articles on: Keaton silent comedies

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Two Comic Plot Structures

Journal article by Noel Carroll; The Monist, Vol. 88, 2005

Subjects:

Comic books, strips, etc.--Criticism and interpretation, Comic books--Criticism and interpretation, Humorous works--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...n. 10, above). (11.) Noel Carroll, "The Paradox of Suspense," Beyond Aesthetics (cited above). (12.) David Moews, Keaton: The Silent Features Close-Up (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1977). (13.) The picaresque is a narrative form...
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From Stella Dallas to Lila Lipscomb: Reading Real Motherhood through Reel Motherhood *

Journal article by Alexandra Keller; West Virginia University Philological Papers, Vol. 52, 2005

Subjects:

American movies--Criticism and interpretation, Motherhood--Portrayals, Motion pictures, American--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Entire Library

...mutant, murderous children. Even comedies express a more benign version...motherhood and work. Diane Keatons Wall Street consultant, at...positions. Even more: what Keaton, Jodie Foster, and Lindsey...that the precedent set under silent cinema carries straight through...
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Greek Cinema for Beginners: A Thumbnail History

Journal article by Dan Georgakas; Film Criticism, Vol. 27, 2002

Subjects:

Motion picture industry--History, Motion pictures--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...courses at New York University, Columbia, and Queens College. He is co-editor of The Cineaste Interviews 2 (2002). Among filmmakers about whom he has written at length are Budd Schulberg, Ida Lupino, Elia Kazan, Theo Angelopoulos, and Buster Keaton.
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Masculinity in the shadow of the slashed eye: surrealist film criticism at the crossroads

Journal article by Phil Powrie; Screen, Vol. 39, 1998

Subjects:

Critical Theory, Film Criticism, Identity (Philosophical Concept), Motion Pictures, Poststructuralism, Television

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...the transition between silent films and sound films...Nosferatu le vampire ) and comedies (Chaplin, Keaton), the attraction of...andalou is a replay of Keatons piano gag in One Week...accident, a joke played by a silent God, as aleatory as...

Magazine Articles on: Keaton silent comedies

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The Many Faces of Movie Comedy: A Photo-Album Look at the Great Comics Who Have Filled Audiences' Hearts with Joy since Silent Film Days

Magazine article by Wes D. Gehring; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 127, July 1998

Subjects:

Motion picture actors and actresses--Performances, Motion pictures--Personalities, Movie actors--Performances, Movies--Personalities

Collections: Entire Library

...pictures are not theme-driven, like other comedies, but, rather, clown-directed. There...with comedy giants who came out of the silent era, such as Charlie Chaplin or Stan Laurel...in itself. The machine-oriented Buster Keaton led the way with his own ocean liner in...
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Mexican Musicians in California and the United States, 1910-50

Magazine article by John Koegel; California History, Vol. 84, Fall 2006

Subjects:

Mexican musicians--Criticism and interpretation, Mexican musicians--Forecasts and trends, Mexican musicians--Works, Musicians, Mexican--Criticism and interpretation, Musicians, Mexican--Forecasts and trends, Musicians, Mexican--Works

Collections: History, Entire Library

...exotic or historical dramas and contemporary comedies, most notably in Ben Hur (1926), Ernst Lubitschs silent film version of The Student Prince (1927...others, comedians Laurel and Hardy and Buster Keaton, singer and actress Jeanette MacDonald...
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Purple Majesty: James Quandt Talks with Guy Maddin

Magazine article by James Quandt; Artforum International, Vol. 41, June 2003

Subjects:

Maddin, Guy--Attitudes, Maddin, Guy--Works

Collections: Entire Library

...Threes Company slowed down. JQ: He made comedies, actually, early in his career. Hes like...partly right. GM: I once watched a Buster Keaton movie shown at eighteen frames per second silent speed, and the gags took forever to unfold...
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Miguel Covarrubias: Captures the Celebrity Culture: Much of This Versatile Mexican Artist's Early Career in New York City Was Spent Characterizing Notables of the Stage and Screen during the 1920s and 30s with His Lively and Humorous Illustrations

Magazine article by Adriana Williams; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 59, July 2007

Subjects:

Celebrities--Government finance, Covarrubias, Miguel

Collections: Entire Library

...of American slapstick comedies, Charlie Chaplin and...making caricatures of the silent screen actors. Many of...the dreamy-eyed Buster Keaton. They were followed by...was one of the first silent film spectaculars, costing...Knows." The earliest silent movies pitted the "good...
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Four More Screenplays by Preston Sturges

Magazine article; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 277, February 1996

Subjects:

Film scripts

Collections: Entire Library

...auteurs: the likes of Chaplin, Keaton, and Bergman. What distinguishes...Sturges one has to go back to the silent era to find any. In the interim...movies made from these are three comedies that can hold their own with...mastering object" of Sturgess comedies, Agee wrote, was to sail...

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Newspaper Articles on: Keaton silent comedies

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When Silence Was Golden; Explosive Action ... Buster Keaton Waits for the Big Bang in the General, Ironically a Silent Film from 1926 Right Charlie. Chaplin Was Once the Most Famous Man in the World

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), November 25, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...three of itsgreatest exponents: Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd. Chaplinmay have been the first and...hastilyerected buildings amid scrubby waste ground, and early silent comedies wereequally crude. Often a crew would start filming...
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Harold Lloyd: A Silent Scream; TCM Runs Retrospective of His Career

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 5, 2003

Subjects:

Chaplin, Charlie, Keaton, Buster, Lloyd, Harold

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Unlike Mr. Chaplin and Mr. Keaton, who were both comic...appreciation of their era, "The Silent Clowns." "For his kind...the most perfect film comedies, "Safety Last" is the...it was the last of his silent features. He completed...along with four of the comedies Lloyd made between 1930...
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Week End: The Quiet Side of Comedy; Television COMEDIAN Paul Merton Is Proving That Humour Is Ageless with a Celebration of the Silent Movies Stars. TV Writer MARION McMULLEN Finds out Why Charlie Chaplin Is the Number One Comedy Star for the Have I Got News for You Team Captain

Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), November 10, 2007

Subjects:

Chaplin, Charlie, Keaton, Buster

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Centre, Coventry, FILM FAVOURITES... Paul Merton celebrates the era of silent comedy including Harold Lloyd.; CLASSIC COMEDIES... (From left) Charlie Chaplin in The Kid, Buster Keaton in Steamboat Bill and Harold Lloyd in Safety First.
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Silents Is Golden; Paul Salutes the Comedy Kings of Silent Cinema

Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), November 23, 2007

Subjects:

Comedians

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...films is the involvement of the audience. We showed the Keaton movie, Steamboat Bill, to about 1,500 people and on...Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan in The Kid, one of the silent comedies celebrated by Paul Merton in his new book, far right
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Keaton's Classic Cinema Magic

Newspaper article by Gary Arnold; The Washington Times, July 6, 1997

Subjects:

Keaton, Buster

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...admirers probably own a video copy and imagine they know it by heart. All the Keaton silent features, which seldom ran more than 70 minutes, and a number of his two-reel comedies were handsomely packaged in a three-volume video set from Kino Video in...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: Keaton silent comedies

2 results

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Keaton, Buster

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...actors in film history, Keaton used his considerable...in vaudeville, in many silent comedies in which he portrayed...J. E. Rapf, Buster Keaton: A Bio-Bibliography...Complete Films of Buster Keaton (2003); studies by G...
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Motion Pictures

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Chaplin , Buster Keaton , Mary Pickford , Douglas...to the careers of some silent actors but destroyed...prison stories, mysteries, comedies, and Broadway shows...1998); J. Basinger, Silent Stars (1999); T. Doherty...Terry Thomas created comedies that are sophisticated...

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