Buster Keaton's Crew: The Team Behind His Silent Films

Author:   Lisle Foote
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
ISBN:  

9780786496839


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   14 November 2014
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Lisle Foote
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9780786496839


ISBN 10:   0786496835
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   14 November 2014
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments deletevi Preface The Camera and Electrical Departments 5 Dal Clawson 7  Elmer Ellsworth 12  Bert Haines 15 Wayne “Denver” Harmon 18  Byron Houck 21  Dev Jennings 25  Gordon Jennings 33  Reggie Lanning 38  Elgin Lessley 40  William McGann 48 William Piltz 51 Co-Directors 54 John Blystone 57 Eddie Cline 61 Donald Crisp 75 James Horne 84 Charles Riesner 90 Malcolm St. Clair 97 Edward Sedgwick 106 Assistant Directors 112 Writers 122 Al Boasberg 124 Clyde Bruckman 131 Raymond Cannon 142 Bryan Foy 148 Tommy Gray 152 Carl Harbaugh 156 Jean Havez 159 Lew Lipton 164 Joseph Mitchell 169 Lex Neal 171 Charles Smith 175 Paul Gerald Smith 179 The Rest of the Crew 182 Lou Anger 183 Harry Brand 189 Chrystine Francis 194 Fred Gabourie 197 Bert E. Jackson 202 J. Sherman Kell 205  Ernie Orsatti 207 Costume Designers 215 Arbuckle’s Crew 222 George Peters 223 Joseph Anthony Roach 225 Herbert Warren 228 Frank D. Williams 229 Source Notes Bibliography Index

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"""If you love Buster Keaton's silent comedies this book is for you. Foote has done an impressive amount of homework...this is scholarship at its finest...this book is an important addition to the Keaton bookshelf""--Leonard Maltin.com; ""the first book-length study examining the contributions of those who helped Keaton redefine screen comedy...one of the most important cinema studies ever to be published. It offers a unique, definitive fascinating look at the team who helped the greatest comedy filmmaker create some of the most important cinematic works in motion picture history. Recommended""--Examiner.com."


If you love Buster Keaton's silent comedies this book is for you. Foote has done an impressive amount of homework...this is scholarship at its finest...this book is an important addition to the Keaton bookshelf --Leonard Maltin.com; the first book-length study examining the contributions of those who helped Keaton redefine screen comedy...one of the most important cinema studies ever to be published. It offers a unique, definitive fascinating look at the team who helped the greatest comedy filmmaker create some of the most important cinematic works in motion picture history. Recommended --Examiner.com.


If you love Buster Keaton's silent comedies this book is for you. Foote has done an impressive amount of homework...this is scholarship at its finest...this book is an important addition to the Keaton bookshelf --Leonard Maltin.com the first book-length study examining the contributions of those who helped Keaton redefine screen comedy...one of the most important cinema studies ever to be published. It offers a unique, definitive fascinating look at the team who helped the greatest comedy filmmaker create some of the most important cinematic works in motion picture history. Recommended --Examiner.com.


If you love Buster Keaton's silent comedies this book is for you. Foote has done an impressive amount of homework...this is scholarship at its finest...this book is an important addition to the Keaton bookshelf --<i>Leonard Maltin.com</i>; the first book-length study examining the contributions of those who helped Keaton redefine screen comedy...one of the most important cinema studies ever to be published. It offers a unique, definitive fascinating look at the team who helped the greatest comedy filmmaker create some of the most important cinematic works in motion picture history. Recommended --<i>Examiner.com</i>.


Author Information

Lisle Foote is a contributing writer to the International Buster Keaton Society’s magazine, the Keaton Chronicle. She works as the Film and Television Archive Assistant at the Southern Regional Library Facility at the University of California–Los Angeles.

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