Two new books about a legendary silent film comic — Dana Stevens' Camera Man and James Curtis' Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life — give fans new reason to revisit Keaton's work.

A hundred years later, the sequence still radiates an otherworldly aura: a man wearing a porkpie hat walks down the aisle of ...

OGUNQUIT, Maine — He never smiled on camera, earning him the nickname of "the Great Stone Face." But Buster Keaton's comedies rocked Hollywood's silent era with laughter throughout the 1920s.

Buster Keaton in a scene from the 1928 silent movie "The Cameraman,'' directed by Edward Sedgwick. Getty/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images Actor Buster Keaton in Paris on Dec. 31, 1950.

Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the 2oth Century by Dana Stevens Atria Books, 432 pp. In fact, in the history of motion pictures, there might be only one other ...

In The Cameraman (1928), Buster Keaton stars as Buster, a meager street photographer who will shoot your sidewalk portrait for ten cents a pop.He falls hard for one of his subjects, Sally (Marceline ...

“Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century,” a cultural history by Slate film critic Dana Stevens arrived in January.

On the Shelf. Buster Keaton Books. Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker’s Life By James Curtis Knopf: 832 pages, $40 Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century ...

Good laugh picture with Buster Keaton. The same old stencil about a boob that does everything wrong and cashes in finally through sheer accident.

In March, the McKnight Center at OSU is taking us back in history a hundred years to experience that through the iconic 1928 Buster Keaton film "The Cameraman." The organist who will be ...

Alex Greene leads an ensemble of jazz and symphony players to perform live alongside a Buster Keaton silent movie masterpiece at The Grove at GPAC. ... What to expect during 'The Cameraman' at GPAC.