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

4.0

If you love old classic Hollywood, especially silent film, I can’t recommend this enough. I love Buster Keaton and this was such an awesome dive into his history and the world around him. Since this book is partly a Keaton biography and partly a look into the environment and world of silent-era Hollywood and later into early talkies, it can sometimes feel strange when you’re invested in a part of Keaton’s life and then a separate aspect of the silent era is explored—I like the idea of the two subjects, and as an old film lover I will eat up any and all information, it can sometimes make for a meandering, less linear sense of direction.

All of this is to say though that this is a delight for any fans of Buster or silent film/old Hollywood! Wonderfully researched but not dense or info-dumpy.