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Silent Film - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Keaton grew up in a vaudeville family. Impressive physical stunts
    - - Length of 20 mins typical for 'two reelers', suited to comedy where gags were more important than narrative
    - - Technological advances and industrialisation
        
        One Week - flatpack house
    - - Surrealism - logic and reason do not apply, authority is questioned
      - Cubism - slanted angles and architecture - the house in One Week
    - - Appeal to working class and immigrant audiences
- - - - Opening wide shot of him and his wife coming out the church - lack of editing creates reality and exposition - controlling audience response
      - Editing and cuts advance the plot and narrative rather than create meaning for the audience
      - Keaton's wife presented as the stereotypical American housewife - domestic feminine roles
    - - Exaggerated mise-en-scene creates disproportionated reality - house
        
        Surrealist cubist form creates a face - reference to the artistic movement of cubism
      - Breaking of the fourth wall - realism and immersion is abandoned