Buster Keaton: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers)

Buster Keaton: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers)

Buster Keaton: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers)
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Editor: Kevin W. Sweeney
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-05-17
ISBN: 1578069637
Number of pages: 278
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi

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Book Review: Essential Addition to the Keaton Bibliography
Summary: 5 Stars

This valuable book compiles the best existing Buster Keaton interviews from 1921 to 1965 - providing new insights on the Great Stone Face's work in film, television and stage. Excerpts from these interviews have appeared in various Keaton biographies. However, it is fascinating to read the complete transcripts of the comic filmmaker's discussions with Kevin Brownlow, Studs Terkel, Arthur B. Friedman, and Robert and Joan Franklin. Surprisingly generous, Keaton probably gave more interviews than Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd combined! Kudos to editor Kevin W. Sweeney for assembling this indispensable collection.

Summary of Buster Keaton: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers)

With his trademark porkpie hat, floppy shoes, and deadpan facial expression, Buster Keaton (1895-1966) is one of the most iconic stars of Hollywood's silent and early sound eras. His elaborate sets, careful camerawork, and risky pratfalls have been mimicked by film comedians for generations. His short films, including One Week and Cops, and his feature-length comedies, such as Sherlock Jr., Go West, and The General, routinely appear on critics' lists of the greatest films of all time.

Buster Keaton: Interviews collects interviews from the beginning of his career in the 1920s to the year before his death. The pieces here provide a critical perspective on his acting and cinematic techniques. Although the collection begins in the 1920s, at the height of Keaton's career, they also give insight on his work in Hollywood and television throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Including pieces by Studs Terkel and Rex Reed, as well as a French interview that has never before appeared in English, the book is a valuable resource on one of cinema's early geniuses.

Kevin W. Sweeney is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Tampa.

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