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Buster Keaton in His Own Time [EPUB ebook]
What the Responses of 1920s Critics Reveal

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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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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 242 ● ISBN 9781476633268 ● Publisher McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers ● Published 2018 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 6171857 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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