David Mamet / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Series:

Bloom's modern critical views

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mamet, David--Criticism and interpretation.

Mamet, David.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

viii, 285 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, 2004.

Summary:

Mamet gained regard as a leading American playwright and screenwriter with such works as "The Postman Always Rings Twice and the 1984 Pulitzer Prizewinning play, Glengarry Glen Ross.

Contents:

Sexual perversity in Chicago / Anne Dean

David Mamet and Ben Jonson : city comedy past and present / Douglas Bruster

Jewish aporia : the rhythm of talking in Mamet / Toby Silverman Zinman

Man among men : David Mamet's homosocial order / David Radavich

David Mamet / Edward J. Esche

Anti-theatricality and American ideology : Mamet's performative realism / Michael L. Quinn

Plato in Hollywood : David Mamet and the power of illusions / Howard Pearce

Gathering sparks / Leslie Kane

David Mamet : all true stories / C.W.E. Bigsby

Oleanna and The children's hour : misreading sexuality on the post/modern realistic stage / David Kennedy Sauer

Prophecy and parody in Edmond / Richard Brucher

Reinscribing the "Fairy" : the knife and the mystification of male mythology in the Cryptogram / Linda Dorff.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-271) and index.

ISBN:

0791076601

OCLC:

52341424