David Mamet in Conversation by Leslie Kane
Contemporary playwright David Mamet's thought-provoking plays and screenplays such as Wag the Dog, Glengarry Glen Ross (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize), and Oleanna have enjoyed popular and critical success in the past two decades. Among the most prolific and provocative of writers, Mamet frequently draws emotional responses from both audiences and critics. Mamet in Conversation collects interviews with the playwright that offer readers insight into his life in the theater, his artistic vision, and the evolution of his craft. The interviews help followers of his work better understand the sensibilities that have informed his work in drama, film, and prose over a twenty-five-year career. The conversations collected here--several of which appear in print for the first time--allow a glimpse inside Mamet's creative process, and to the recurring motifs that drive his work. The range of topics is impressive and includes the celebratory purpose of theater, the responsibility of the playwright, writing for Hollywood, the seduction of fame, the search for truth and the merchandising of it, and the decay of culture. The interviews shed light on the personal as well: Mamet's return to Judaism, his appreciation of Midwestern virtues, his love of rural Vermont, the problems of embattled virtue, and the challenge of aging. The book includes transcripts of Mamet's engagingly candid broadcast interviews with Jim Lehrer and Charlie Rose of PBS, published here for the first time. Leslie Kane is Professor of English, Westfield State College. She is the author of three previous books and is President of the David Mamet Society of the Modern Language Association.-
Approaching the Millennium
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Critical Theory and Performance
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Looking Into the Abyss
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Tom Stoppard in Conversation
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Arthur Miller's America
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Feeling Yellow
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Performance Constellations
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The Purpose of Playing
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Democracy Moving
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Sails of the Herring Fleet
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No Safe Spaces
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Directing Beckett
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Theater, War, and Memory in Crisis
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Acting the Part
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Fantasies of Ito Michio
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Simming
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Alienation Effects
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Scenes from Bourgeois Life
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Acting as Reading
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Not the Other Avant-Garde
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Embodying Black Experience
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Brian Friel in Conversation
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Staging Place
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After Live
Leslie Kane is Professor of English, Westfield State College. She is the author of three previous books and is President of the David Mamet Society of the Modern Language Association.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780472067640 |
| ISBN 10 | 0472067648 |
| Title | David Mamet in Conversation |
| Author | Leslie Kane |
| Series | Theater: Theory Text Performance |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The University of Michigan Press |
| Year published | 2001-07-31 |
| Number of pages | 264 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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