Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)

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dc.contributor.authorKrämer, Peter
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-05T14:34:22Z
dc.date.available2023-06-05T14:34:22Z
dc.date.issued2023-05-01
dc.description.abstractThis chapter discusses Buster Keaton's Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) - the last film he made at Buster Keaton Productions for release by United Artists before he moved to MGM as a contract actor - as the culmination and summary of his stage and film career up to this point. The distinctive features of Keaton's filmic and performance style are analysed in relation to the (changing) conventions of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1920s. The chapter also examines the filmmaker's contractual status at Buster Keaton Productions, his dependence, throughout his whole film career, on producer Joseph Schenck and on the major studios, and the (commercial) centrality of so-called independent production to the operations of the American film industry in the 1920s.en
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dc.identifier.citationKrämer, P. (2023) Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928). In: Wyatt, J. and Phillips, W. D. (eds) Screening American Independent Film. London: Routledge, pp. 31-9.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781003246930-4
dc.identifier.issn9781032160603
dc.identifier.issn9781032160627
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2086/22988
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.researchinstituteCinema and Television History Institute (CATHI)en
dc.subjectBuster Keatonen
dc.subjectAmerican film industryen
dc.subjectclassical styleen
dc.subjectindependent production and distributionen
dc.subjectJoseph Schencken
dc.titleSteamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)en
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