Episode 23: Buster Keaton Can Get It

Laura and Kim enlist Ann's help in understanding what it is about early film she loves so much—other than the fact that Buster Keaton can definitely get it, which they understand completely.

Some cool links for further inquiry:

Mary Ann Doane, "The Indexical and the Concept of Medium Specificity"

https://read.dukeupress.edu/differences/article-abstract/18/1/128/97676/The-Indexical-and-the-Concept-of-Medium

 

Tom Gunning, "The Cinema of Attraction: Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant-Garde"

http://www.columbia.edu/itc/film/gaines/historiography/Gunning.pdf