A few months back, I had the pleasure of reading Dana Stevens’ Camera Man, which is a new biography of Buster Keaton that attempts to place Old Stone Face into a historical context. Stevens sees Keaton’s lifespan and the particulars of his story as a way of documenting the rapid changes in American life over the course of some seventy-odd years. He was born into a world that had cinema, of course. However, it was still seen as a novelty … Continue reading ‘Moonage Daydream’ is Brett Morgen’s fantastic voyage into David Bowie’s mind