My Wonderful World of Slapstick

Buster Keaton's autobiography is a view into the quirky mind behind the stoic face of the legendary film comedian.

Author: Buster Keaton, Charles Samuels
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 08/22/1982
Pages: 340
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 7.82h x 5.84w x 0.84d
ISBN13: 9780306801785
ISBN10: 0306801787
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Acting & Auditioning
- Performing Arts | Film | History & Criticism
- Performing Arts | Comedy

About the Author
Charles Samuels, a New York newspaperman, wrote biographies of Jody Garland, Lizzie Borden, and Evelyn Nesbit. He worked with Buster Keaton on My Wonderful World of Slapstick (also available from Da Capo Press). Donald Bogle is the author of Brown Sugar: Eighty Years of America's Black Female Superstars (also available from De Capo Press), Blacks in American Film & Television: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, and Toms, Coon, Mulattoes, Mammies & Bucks: An Interpretive Histroy of Blacks in American Films. He has been called the dean of black film history.