This author's writing on film includes an essay on the Keaton/Chaplin debate called "On First Looking into Chaplin's Humour" and a history of cinema i
This author's writing on film includes an essay on the Keaton/Chaplin debate called "On First Looking into Chaplin's Humour" and a history of cinema in 100 film stills called Flickers. He wrote a novel about Matthew's encounter with some cinema-obsessed incestuous siblings during the events of May 1968. Bertolucci's movie The Dreamers is based on this man's novel The Holy Innocents. Evadne Mount is the hero of his three detective novels with Agatha Christie-inspired titles: The Act of (*) Roger Murgatroyd, A Mysterious Affair of Style, and And Then There Was No One. For 10 points, name this Scottish novelist who translated Georges Perec's La Disparition into English as A Void.
This author's writing on film includes an essay on the Keaton/Chaplin debate called "On First Looking into Chaplin's Humour" and a history of cinema in 100 film stills called Flickers.
Gilbert Adair