New on our bookshelf today:
Buster Keaton in His Own Time: What the Responses of 1920s Critics Reveal
Wes D. Gehring
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!
