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WORK IN PROGRESS Film Analysis: Buster Keaton Short Films.

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'One Week': Full Short Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBGBj6cse1M Wikipedia Page:   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Week_(1920_film) IMDB Page:   https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0011541/ The short film, 'One Week', directed by and starring the famed, Buster Keaton ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Keaton ), is a remarkable example of early cinematic storytelling as well as being a film that adeptly undermined a number of contextually relevant conventions in order to convey an effective comical narrative. The works of Buster Keaton are (often) know to experiment with the limits of what one can convey within a narrative through the implementation of planned elaborate stunts and creative film editing (, post-filming). 'One Week' could easily be identified as one of his best works since it takes the standard conventions of a romantic narrative and flips it on its head; in short, the narrative features two newlyweds, (each played by Buster Keaton a