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Index Abbott and Costello, 17 absurdity, 9, 18, 85, 88, 92, 97, 102, 105,111, 121, 123,154,213,251, 259, 331 action-reaction, 35, 44, 76, 123, 349 Adoree, Renee, 269 adulthood, 28, 31, 34, 36, 40, 55,87, 89,90,169,170-71,172, 173, 190,215,217,219,255,310,333, 338, 346, 352, 353, 360 aftergag, 27, 72, 86,89, 114, 132, 189 afterimage, 10, 65 Agee, James, 2, 4, 6, 20, 353 American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 7 American Film Institute, 4 Anger, Lou, 96 animals, 48-50, 51, 55, 84-86, 8789 ,92,99, 139-40, 181, 193-96, 197, 198,205,236,238-39,240, 242, 245, 246, 247, 249, 257, 260, 261, 271-73, 278, 286, 299, 321, 325-26, 327-28, 329, 340-41, 342,343-44,360 Arbuckle, Roscoe ("Fatty"), 3, 4, 7, 8,16,51,73,96,111,161,197, 203, 206, 236, 314 Astaire, Fred, 158 audience, 20, 29, 32, 51, 76, 77, 87, 91,101-2,105,106,113,119, 120, 126, 128, 130, 131, 132, 139, 141,144,156,167,217,223,229, 261,278,314 authority figures, 14, 32, 40, 60, 111,112,113,114, 115-16, 119, 122,141,157,172,180,189,194, 196-97, 198, 199-204,205,206, 207, 212, 213, 240, 257, 263, 27982 , 283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 304 background, 29, 31, 37, 75, 94, 97, 112,113,114,117,154-55,160, 177, 180, 183, 193, 200,201, 211, 245, 262, 283, 284, 336 Backstage, 16 Ba/loonatic, The, 312-31, 338, 341 Bara, Theda, 251, 256 barrier, 21, 57, 59, 61, 67, 68, 105, 210,213-14,217-18,223 Bathing Beauties, 321 BattlinJ! Butler, 161, 360 Berkeley, Busby, 141 Biograph Theatre, 82 Birth ofa Nation, 48 black art, 143, 267 blacks, treatment of, 27, 57, 59, 6061 Blacksmith, The, to, Ito, 234-49, 251, 266, 272, 276, 278,307,342, 358 Blesh, Rudi, 134, 136, 203, 209, 229, 252, 254, 298, 299, 360 Blind Husbands, 264 Blue, James, 7 Boat, The, 2, 146-65, 169, 186, 191, 193, 206, 207, 2to, 213, 259, 271, 3Bfi 276, 284, 288, 291, 301, 314, 324, 335, 339, 341, 343, 348, 353, 354, 360 Bowery Amphitheatre, 129 Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 4 broomstick, 15, 135-36 Brownlow, Kevin, 82 Bruckman, Clyde, 16, 130, 298 burlesque, 47, 60, 250, 251, 252, 255, 256, 266, 335 Burns and Allen, 17 Buster Keaton Corporation, 7 Buster Keaton Story, The, 6, 150 Buster Keaton Studio, 3, 332 Butcher Boy, The, 3, 73 camera (camera angles), 2, 11, 13, 16, 20-21, 22, 24, 25, 75, 77, 98, 103, 109, 111-12, 113, 116, 130, 140, 141, 149, 150, 152, 154, 155, 156, 163, 175, 177, 183, 191, 198, 224, 245, 260, 261, 262, 265, 272, 283,327,336,337,351,358,359 Cameraman, The,S Chaplin, Charlie, 3, 4, 6, 10, 20, 24, 161, 164, 169, 236, 254, 261, 279, 353,357-58 chapter. See filmic chapters chase, 21-22, 31, 49, 51, 53, 75, 81, 83, 103-4, 105-6, 111-12, 114, 116-17, 119, 120, 122, 123, 124, 175, 176, 181, 182, 183-84, 185, 186, 187, 189, 196, 197, 199-202, 203-5, 226-27, 228, 231, 236, 237, 246, 249, 257, 259, 269, 27980 , 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 288, 307, 345, 346, 359 childlikeness, 27, 28, 31, 34, 35-36, 40, 55, 76, 78, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 112, 116, 169, 170-72, 174, 179, 190, 196,280,308,309,313,320, 333, 337, 338, 347, 352, 355, 360 child-man. See childlikeness Index choreography, 30, 31-32, 45, 47, 69, 72,76,78, 141, 159, 170, 172, 173,180,199,202,219,220,231, 232, 244, 260, 288, 345 Christy, Edwin P., 129 circularity, 14, 19,21,25,36,41,58, 72, 87, 101, 144, 153,285, 287, 291, 345, 348 Clansman, The, 48 climax, 21, 24, 49, 87, 96, 106, 168, 178, 181, 183, 204, 343 Cline, Eddie, 72 close-up, 13, 14, 19,30,31,32,37, 57,59,61,65,71,74,76,77,89, 99, 103, 114, 115, 121, 131, 138, 139, 151, 163, 168, 170, 185, 193, 194,212,225,255,260,262,274, 277, 292, 295, 297, 298, 299, 313, 333, 338 coincidence, 61, 175, 190,207,229, 292, 300, 307, 337, 340 Col/ege, 60, 149, 207, 360 Col/iers, 5 Collins, Monte, 214 "Comedy's Greatest...

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