The Plays, Screenplays and Films of David Mamet

ISBN-13: 9780230555358 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 192 str.

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David Mamet is arguably the most important living American playwright. This Guide provides an up-to-date study of the key criticism on the full range of Mamet's work. It engages with his work in film as well as in the theatre, offering a synoptic overview of, and critical commentary on, the scholarly criticism of each play, screenplay or film.

Spis treści

Introduction.- Early Plays: Lakeboat (1970), The Duck Variations (1972), and Sexual Perversity in Chicago (1974).- American Buffalo (1975).- A Life in the Theatre (1977), The Water Engine (1977), Mr Happiness (1977).- Other 1970s Plays: The Woods (1977), Reunion (1976), Dark Pony (1977), Children's Plays, Squirrels (1974), Marranos (1975), Lone Canoe (1979).- The Screenplays, 1981-9:The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981), The Verdict (1982), and The Untouchables (1987), We're No Angels (1989).- Edmond (1982).- Glengarry Glen Ross (1983).- Prairie du Chien (1978) and The Shawl (1985).- House of Games (1987).- Speed-the-Plow (1988).- Things Change (1988).- The 'Bobby Gould' Plays (c.1989).- Homicide (1991).- Oleanna (1992).- The Cryptogram (1994).- The Spanish Prisoner (1997), The Edge (1997), Wag the Dog (1997).- The Winslow Boy (1999) and After.- Conclusion.- Notes.-  Select Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

STEVEN PRICE is Lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Bangor, UK.