David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross: Text and Performance

ISBN-13: 9780815335900 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 318 str.

Leslie Kane

Opis

David Mamet's criticism of American society, theatrical inventiveness, images of alienation and betrayal, sensitivity to language, and continuing productivity make him a leading contemporary playwright. This critical collection of ten essays by noted American and European scholars, including Ruby Cohn, Michael Hinden, Dennis Carroll, Steven Gale, and Chris Hudgins, examines David Mamet's development from the beginning of his career. Structural and thematic essays provide a comprehensive overview of his work in theatre and film through such diverse approaches as aesthetics, linguistic strategies, communal vision, recurring paradigms, comedic structure and purpose, influences of classical and Renaissance drama, and feminist perspectives. Additionally, interviews conducted during 1990 with director Gregory Mosher, who has directed more than 12 Mamet plays, and actor Joe Mantegna, who in 15 years has starred in A Life in the Theatre, Glengarry Glen Ross, Speed-the-Plow, Things Change, and Homicide, offer insights about the writer and his work.

Recenzje

"A necessary collection about a most necessary playwright." -- Choice

Spis treści

Introduction, Leslie Kane * Negative Creation: The Detective Story in Glengarry Glen Ross, Steven Price * By indirections find directions out: Uninflected Cuts, Narrative Structure, and Thematic Statement in the Film Version ofGlengarry Glen Ross, Christopher C. Hudgins * The Discourse of Anxiety, Anne Dean * How To Do Things With Salesmen: David Mamet's Speech-Act Play, David Worster * Men Among the Ruins, Robert H. Vorlicky * Levene's Daughter: Positioning the Female in Glengarry Glen Ross, Dorothy H. Jacobs * You're Exploiting My Space: Ethnicity, Spectatorship and the (Post)colonial Condition in Mukherjee's A Wife's Story and Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, Deborah H. Geis * The Marxist Child's Play of Mamet's Tough Guys and Churchill's Top Girls, David Kennedy Sauer * Be What You Are: Identity and Morality in Edmond and Glengarry Glen Ross, Jon Tuttle * David Mamet, Jean Baudrillard and the Performance of America, Elizabeth Klaver * Visions of a Promised Land: David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross , Tony J. Stafford * Things (Ex)Change: The Value of Money in Glengarry Glen Ross, Linda Dorff * Pernicious Nostalgia in Glengarry Glen Ross, Richard Brucher * A Japanese Glengarry Glen Ross, Robert T. Rolf * A Conversation: Sam Mendes and Leslie Kane * Bibliography of Glengarry Glen Ross: 1983-1995, David K. Sauer and Janice A. Sauer

O autorze

Leslie Kane