Wider Reading for Buster Keaton Short Films

It is essential, if you want to gain a good grade in this section, that you read and learn the notes on this blog. If you really want to push yourself, you should conduct some wider reading about Buster Keaton, his films, silent cinema and American silent film comedy. Below are links to a number of useful online articles that will further your appreciation of Keaton and his work - this list is not exhaustive but should act as a good starting point for further research.

How Silent Filmmaker Buster Keaton Revolutionized Film Comedy

Buster Keaton: Symmetry of Laughter

Buster Keaton and the Comedic Roots of Surrealist Cinema

Buster Keaton's Relation to the Mechanical: A Critical Analysis of Some Interpretations

Buster Keaton's Early Shorts: The Foundations of a Comic Genius

The Silent Era Film Stars Who Risked Life and Limb Doing Their Own Stunts

Buster Keaton: Anarchitect

Analysis of Cops

How the Visual Direction of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton Inform Today's Comedies

Buster Keaton's Silence was Golden

Buster Keaton #4: The Scarecrow

Anarchic Architecture: Buster Keaton's One Week

Thoughts on Keaton's One Week

Visionary Prefab in the Modern Age: Deconstructing Keaton's Films

Student Notes on the Realist and the Expressive