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Buster Keaton in His Own Time

Buster Keaton in His Own Time

Wes D. Gehring

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McFarland and Company, Inc.
Año de edición:
2018
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Biografía: general
ISBN:
9781476666808
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Buster Keaton 'can impress a weary world with the vitally important fact that life, after all, is a foolishly inconsequential affair,' wrote critic Robert Sherwood in 1918. A century later Keaton, with his darkly comic 'theater of the absurd,' speaks to audiences like no other silent comedian. If you thought you knew Keaton--think again!

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