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41by Plotz, John, 1967-Table of Contents: “…Visual Interlude III / The Great Stone Face: Buster Keaton, Semi-Detached -- Conclusion: Apparitional Criticism -- Notes -- Bibliography…”
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42Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Douglas Fairbanks : king of Hollywood -- Buster Keaton : comic invention and the art of moving pictures -- The Talmadge sisters : a forgotten filmmaking dynasty -- Rudolph Valentino : Italian American -- An appetite for living : Gloria Swanson, Colleen Moore, and Clara Bow -- Greta Garbo : fashioning a star image -- Anna May Wong : toward Janus-faced, border-crossing, "minor" stardom -- Emil Jannings : translating the star -- Al Jolson : the man who changed the movies forever -- African American stardom inside and outside of Hollywood : Ernest Morrison, Noble Johnson, Evelyn Preer, and Lincoln Perry -- Marie Dressler : thief of the talkies -- In the wings.…”
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45Published 2017Table of Contents: “…Introduction: How to Talk to a Movie Star -- A Comedy Giant. Buster Keaton -- The Leading Men. Anthony Dexter -- Henry Fonda -- Victor Mature -- Walter Pidgeon -- Robert Preston -- James Stewart -- Cornel Wilde -- Robert Young -- The Leading Ladies. …”
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48by Simic, Charles, 1938-2023Table of Contents: “…In praise of folly -- The devil is a poet -- The power of ambiguity -- Buster Keaton -- Poetry and history -- The romance of sausages -- Poetry : the art of memory -- Stargazing in the cinema : on Joseph Cornell -- Literature and the Gods : Roberto Calasso -- From Memory piano. …”
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50Published 1995Table of Contents: “…/ Frank Krutnik -- Comedy, melodrama, and gender / Kathleen Rowe -- Funny stories / Kristine Brunovska Karnick and Henry Jenkins -- Crazy machines in the garden of forking paths : mischief gags and the origins of American film comedy / Tom Gunning -- Pie and chase : gag, spectacle and narrative in slapstick comedy / Donald Crafton -- Responses to "pie and chase" / Tom Gunning -- Commitment and reaffirmation in Hollywood romantic comedy / Kristine Brunovska Karnick -- Acting funny / Henry Jenkins and Kristine Brunovska Karnick -- The Keystone Film Company / Doug Riblet -- The making of a comic star : Buster Keaton and The saphead (1920) / Peter Kramer -- Goin' to town and beyond : Mae West, film censorship and the comedy of unmarriage / Ramona Curry -- The laughing stock of the city : male dread, performance anxiety and Unfaithfully yours / Henry Jenkins -- Comedy and the social world / Kristine Brunovska Karnick and Henry Jenkins -- Divorce, DeMille, and the comedy of remarriage / Charles Musser -- Romantic love and friendship : the redefinition of gender relations in screwball comedy / Tina Olsin Lent -- Queerness, comedy, and The women / Alex Doty.…”
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54by Meuel, David, 1950-Table of Contents: “…Introduction : a doomed art's glorious last days -- At the precipice : Mary Pickford and My best girl -- "The maddest idea in the world" : Gloria Swanson, Raoul Walsh, and Sadie Thompson -- Tramp on a tightrope : Charlie Chaplin and The circus -- "A lyricist of light and shadow" : Josef von Sternberg, The last command, and The docks of New York -- "The highest reaches of the form" : King Vidor and The crowd -- The end of an amazing run : Harold Lloyd and Speedy -- In a blaze of windswept glory : Buster Keaton and Steamboat Bill, Jr. -- A star is born : Joan Crawford and Our dancing daughters -- "Astonishing elegance" : William Wellman, Louise Brooks, Wallace Beery, and Beggars of life -- "Time was his; he owned it" : Erich von Stroheim and The wedding march -- "I have a special confidence in you" : Lillian Gish, Victor Sjöström, and The wind -- Partners in Perversity : Lon Chaney, Tod Browning, and West of Zanzibar -- "To reach for the moon one last time" : Douglas Fairbanks and The iron mask -- Twenty-eight other notable U.S. …”
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55Published 2017Table of Contents: “…Introduction: How to Talk to a Movie Star -- A Comedy Giant. Buster Keaton -- The Leading Men. Anthony Dexter -- Henry Fonda -- Victor Mature -- Walter Pidgeon -- Robert Preston -- James Stewart -- Cornel Wilde -- Robert Young -- The Leading Ladies. …”
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56by Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008Table of Contents: “…In the wings (with Francois Truffaut). Buster Keaton. Lillian Gish. King Vidor. Vittorio De Sica -- Say it with music. …”
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60by McGowan, ToddConnect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
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