Buster Keaton's Silent Shorts: 1920-1923

by James L. Neibaur and Terri Niemi

By the mid-1920s, Buster Keaton had established himself as one of the geniuses of cinema with such films as Sherlock, Jr., The Navigator, and his 1927 work The General, which was the highest ranked silent on the American Film Institute's survey of the 100 greatest films. Before Keaton ventured into longer works, however, he had honed his skills as an actor, writer, and director of short films produced in the early 1920s. In Buster Keaton's Silent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810887401
• ISBN13: 9780810887404
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"