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Popular Culture: Icons and Celebrities
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- ISBN 9780313251481
- Weight: 539g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 24 Jan 1995
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The world-weary cynicism, the acceptance of chaos, and the inevitability of the fading of romance that seem to characterize a post-holocaust generation make Keaton a favorite with today's audiences; they prefer his detached cool to Chaplin's often impassioned sentimentality and spirited commitment. There is no question that Keaton was an innovative filmmaker with an instinctive awareness of the unique possibilities of the camera and that he anticipated the cinematic strides of such later masters as Renoir, Welles, Antonioni, and Kubrick. Neither his content nor his structure seems dated. We can learn much from him, about the folly of pride, about the importance of persevering, and about the fact that the value of a human life is not measured by money, but by work. Experts, students, and enthusiasts will find great value in this book.
JOANNA E. RAPF is Associate Professor of English and Film at the University of Oklahoma. She is widely published in film and literature journals and is currently working on a book about her grandfather: Harry Rapf: The Unknown Mogul at MGM.
GARY L. GREEN was an Assistant Professor of English at Youngstown State University at the time of his sudden death from cancer at the age of 33.
