Muensterberg, Liminality, and the Slapstick Photoplay: The Case for Buster Keaton

Hi all,

Well, the semester’s finally over, and I survived…I think. Here’s the paper I wrote for my film theory class. In it, I hypothesize about what Hugo Muensterberg, one of the earliest (if not the earliest) film theorists, would have thought of Buster Keaton’s Sherlock, Jr (Metro Pictures, 1924). Enjoy.

Muensterberg, Liminality, and the Slapstick Photoplay: The Case for Buster Keaton