A review by amlibera
Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century by Dana Stevens

5.0

Not a traditional biography of Buster Keaton, rather a series of essays that both tell Keaton's story and move beyond it to explore a range of movements and structures of twentieth century America (the start of AA for example) as well as the myths and growth of a variety of American performance mediums. I teach Keaton in my comedy history class (and TBH, he's always been my favorite of the silent performers) and there was so much here that resonated, provoked, or otherwise fascinated someone who already had a fair amount of knowledge about the subject.