Keystone. The Life and Clowns of Mack Sennett. - LOUVISH, SIMON
KORTE INHOUD
From the author of "Stan and Ollie"--a funny, fresh, and compelling look at Hollywood's Original King of Comedy. From his early aspirations to sing opera, to his time under the tutelage of D. W. Griffith, to the fortune and notoriety that his uncanny eye for talent deservedly brought him, Mack Sennett stood behind his belief in individuality and originality. Now, more than eighty years after Sennett rose to heights that epitomized the American dream, the acclaimed biographer of Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, and W. C. Fields offers a compelling account of comedy's transformation at the hands of a true master. Regarded as the father of American slapstick, Sennett--iron-worker, boilermaker, actor, director, producer, writer, and creator of the infamous Keystone Kops--held audiences in thrall to a world where chaos was order and banana peels, car crashes, and leaps from tall buildings were a matter of course. As the cameras rolled and vaudeville gags morphed into celluloid wonders, the rising stars of Char...
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Original publisher's paperback, pictorial frontcover, 8vo: frontispiece portrait, xvi, 352pp., illustrations, list illustrations, coda, notes on sources, chronology, acknowledgements, general index, index films. Very fine copy - as new. New York, Faber & Faber Inc.-Farrat, Straus & Giroux. 2003 [Auteur: LOUVISH, SIMON] [Jaar: 2003] [Titel: Keystone. The Life and Clowns of Mack Sennett.]
