21L011 The Film Experience
Professor David Thorburn

Lecture 2 - Keaton
  1. The Fred Ott Principle, continued
    • Three phases of media evolution

  2. Buster Keaton (1895-1966)
    • Acrobat / Actor
    • Technician / Director
    • Metaphysician / Artist

  3. The General (1927)
    • "A culminating text"
    • Structure
    • The Keaton Hero: Steadfast, Muddling
    • The Keaton Universe: Contingency