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Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
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Author:
Dana Stevens
Publisher:
Atria Books
Date:
January 25, 2022
Slate film critic Dana Stevens explores the life of actor Buster Keaton as one encapsulating the ideas and mores of an era, considering concurrent developments in entertainment, journalism, law, technology, the political and social status of women and the popular understanding of addiction.
What The Reviewers Say
Excellent.
Stevens clearly adores her subject, describing him as a 'solemn, beautiful, perpetually airborne man.' Camera Man is less a traditional biography than a series of reported essays about the progress of the 20th century with Keaton at their center. Sometimes Stevens ventures too far afield.
Dana Stevens shows us she isn’t screwing around as early as page six by unpacking the year 1895.
... superb.
