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David Mamet: A Research and Production Sourcebook

Book by David K. Sauer, Janice A. Sauer; Praeger, 2003

Subjects:

Mamet, David--Criticism And Interpretation, Mamet, David--Dramatic Production, Mamet, David--Stage History

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...Conversation 182-91 Covington, Richard. David Mamet. Salon Oct 1997. 2 Dec. 2002 . David Mamet on the Old Religion. Tikkun 12.6 (1997...James, N. Suspicion-Why is David Mamet Dabbling in Edwardiana? Sight and Sound...
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David Mamet: Language as Dramatic Action

Book by Anne Dean; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1990

Subjects:

Mamet, David--Criticism And Interpretation, Mamet, David--Language, Mamet, David--Motion Picture Plays

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...National Theatre, London. 70. David Mamet, American Buffalo (London: Methuen...Theatre, London. 72. Jean Vallely, David Mamet Makes a Play for Hollywood, Rolling Stone, 3 April 1980, p. 44. 73. David Mamet, National Theatre Study Notes for Glengarry...
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Great American Writers: Twentieth Century - Vol. 7

Book by R. Baird Shuman; Marshall Cavendish, 2002

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American Literature--20th Century--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, Authors, American--20th Century--Biography--Dictionaries, MacLeish, Archibald--1892-1982--Criticism and interpretation, Malamud, Bernard--Criticism and interpretation, Mamet, David--Criticism and interpretation, McCarthy, Cormac--1933---Criticism and interpretation, McNickle, D'Arcy--1904-1977--Criticism and interpretation

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David Alan Mamet was born on November 30, 1947, near Chicago, Illinois, and...Jewish South Side. His Russian Jewish parents, Lenore Silver Mamet and Bernard Morris Mamet, were, re- spectively, a teacher and a labor lawyer. Childhood...
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Realism and the American Dramatic Tradition

Book by William W. Demastes; University of Alabama Press, 1996

Subjects:

American Drama--20th Century--History And Criticism, Realism In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Performance Palo Alto: Stanford UP, 1993 . 17. Mamet theorizes such a shared idealism in relation...Berkeley: California UP, 1981 . 20. Mamet, "Acting," in Writing in Restaurants...21. Henry Schvey, "The Plays of David Mamet: Games of Manipulation and Power," New...
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Beyond Naturalism: A New Realism in American Theatre

Book by William W. Demastes; Greenwood Press, 1988

Subjects:

American Drama--20th Century--History And Criticism, Naturalism In Literature, Realism In Literature

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...action. In turn a closed structure for Mamet becomes a matter of artifice rather than...statement of "order." In a 1986 interview, Mamet justifies utilizing a "well-made" plot...is little more than an event into which Mamet infuses his more central concerns. The...

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Plato in Hollywood: David Mamet and the Power of Illusions

Journal article by Howard Pearce; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 32, 1999

Subjects:

Dramatists--Works, Filmmakers--Works, Mamet, David--Works

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Plato in Hollywood: David Mamet and the power of illusions. by Howard...which we feel secure" (64). For David Mamet as for Gadamer, the theater challenges...danger" (Some Freaks ix-x). Although Mamet is now most widely known as film writer...
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Hitchcock's Macguffin in the Works of David Mamet

Journal article by Mike Digou; Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 31, 2003

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Filming, Hitchcock, Alfred (1899-1980), Mamet, David, Motion pictures

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...Hitchcocks Macguffin in the Works of David Mamet by Mike Digou "we find that the best way...Spanish Prisoner 8) Sitting down with David Mamet at his Cambridge, Massachusetts, home...to the readers imaginations and has made Mamet one of the foremost dramatists of the twentieth...
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Ethics and Capitalism in the Screenplays of David Mamet

Journal article by Kevin Alexander Boon; Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 39, 2011

Subjects:

Capitalism, Happiness

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Ethics and Capitalism in the Screenplays of David Mamet by Kevin Alexander Boon David Mamet, of his experience as a boy often or twelve...screenplays1 because it identifies two key elements in Mamet s original screen work: 1) the ability of rhetoric...
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Brass Balls: Masculine Communication and the Discourse of Capitalism in David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross

Journal article by Andrea Greenbaum; The Journal of Men's Studies, Vol. 8, 1999

Subjects:

Characters and characteristics--Evaluation, Communication--Demographic aspects, Glengarry Glen Ross (Motion picture)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Mamet, David--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Masculinity (Psychology)--Evaluation

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...by ANDREA GREENBAUM Key Words: David Mamet, masculinity, language, capitalism...Any Fucking Course that he sees fit. (Mamet, 1982, pp. 72-73) In the 1992 film version of Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet creates a new character for his screenplay...
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Dialogic Problems and Miscommunication: a Study of David Mamet's Oleanna

Journal article by Ahmed S. M Mohammed; The Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Vol. 21, 2009

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Dramatists, Mamet, David, Theater, Theater criticism

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...called political correctness."8 However, Mamet did not acknowledge the claims relating...because he had problems with the last act. Mamet also claimed that he did not see Oleanna...11 In regard to his dramatic design, Mamet indicates that "the strictness of the...

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Mamet Vs-Mamet: He's Playwright, Director, Theorist - and His Own Worst Enemy

Magazine article by Todd London; American Theatre, Vol. 13, July 1996

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Dramatists--Conduct of life, Mamet, David--Conduct of life

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Mamet vs-Mamet: hes playwright, director, theorist - and his own worst enemy by Todd...All of the comics like me always want to be tragedians." - David Mamet, quoted in In Their Own Word David Mamet possesses something rare and...
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David Mamet: Mametfest Destiny

Magazine article by Shawn Macomber; The American Spectator, Vol. 41, June 2008

Subjects:

Declaration of Independence-US, Essays, Ideology, Mamet, David, Motion picture directors & producers, Politics

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David Mamet: Mametfest Destiny by Shawn Macomber IT...surfeit of art house cinemas. "It can," Mamet, fairly oozing his trademark self-assured...Times, "The right has gained an artist") Mamet could still be trusted to deliver the correct...
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David Mamet on the Old Religion

Magazine article; Tikkun, Vol. 12, November 1997

Subjects:

Books, Dramatists, Jews, Judaism, Literature, Mamet, David, Religion, Society

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

David Mamet on the Old Religion David Mamet on The Old Religion David Mamet is the Pulitzer prize-winning author of numerous plays, incuding Oleanna, and films, including The Postman Always Rings Twice, Hoffa, and The Untouchables. His new...
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Boot Camp with David Mamet: Out of the Rigors of Actor-Training Emerge a Theatre Company and School

Magazine article by Jordan Lage; American Theatre, Vol. 21, January 2004

Subjects:

Actors--Training, Actresses--Training, Mamet, David--Management, Theater workshops--Personal narratives

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Boot Camp with David Mamet: Out of the Rigors of Actor-Training...ACTING CLASS WITH THE PLAYWRIGHT DAVID MAMET began inauspiciously. I arrived late...minutes early. Most people know David Mamet as one of Americas premier dramatists...
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Mametogram, or How to Write like David Mamet

Magazine article by Randy Gener; American Theatre, Vol. 23, March 2006

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...Mametogram, or How to Write like David Mamet. by Randy Gener CHICAGO: The old neighborhood...is inquiring about the Goodmans "David Mamet Write-Alike Contest," is seated across...play about some dope bleeding on a ham. Mamet wrote this to provoke me? JOHN: Thats...

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No Longer 'Brain-Dead'; but Mamet Switch Should Come as No Surprise

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 21, 2008

Subjects:

Mamet, David

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

No Longer Brain-Dead; but Mamet Switch Should Come as No Surprise. Byline...screenwriter, director and author David Mamet published a piece provocatively titled...however, shouldnt be surprised. Mr. Mamet, the chronicler of the con, the detailer...
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David Mamet Turns Right; Escapee from Left Wing Shines Spotlight on Liberalism's Hypocrisy

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), June 9, 2011

Subjects:

Dramatists, Liberalism, Mamet, David, Playwrights

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

David Mamet Turns Right; Escapee from Left Wing Shines...writer-thinker-philosopher. David Mamet, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright...He had a dramatic political conversion. Mamet reevaluated his own heroes, starting with...
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Mamet Provides an Expletively Sizzling Show; Terry Grimley Sees David Mamet's Sizzling Hollywood Drama Speed-the-Plow, in an Enterprising Production by Birmingham Stage Company

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), October 19, 1998

Subjects:

Mamet, David

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Mamet Provides an Expletively Sizzling Show; Terry...instantly responds: "F*** you! - David Mamet." This literary quotation could certainly...to be found everywhere in Mamets writing. Mamet, however, is the great poet of contemporary...
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Mamet Play Puts the Spotlight on the Actors

Newspaper article by Melynda Findlay; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 23, 2004

Subjects:

Mamet, David

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Mamet Play Puts the Spotlight on the Actors. by...written by Chicago-born playwright David Mamet, whose work includes several well-known...part is the acting," Burghardt said. "Mamet writes skeletally and leaves a lot out...
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Hating Bush Is the Easy Bit; from Michael Moore to David Mamet, an Unpopular President Has Powerful Enemies in America. but That Does Not Mean John Kerry Will Win

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), August 4, 2004

Subjects:

Kerry, John F., Mamet, David

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Hating Bush Is the Easy Bit; from Michael Moore to David Mamet, an Unpopular President Has Powerful Enemies in America. but...democracy who are the real moral aggressors. The urbane Mr Mamet has thus become the latest adherent of the "Michael Moorification...

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Mamet, David

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

MAMET, DAVID mamet , 1947 , American playwright and film director, b. Chicago. He taught...film version of Glengarry (1992), and many other films. In 1987, Mamet made his debut as a film director with House of Games, a complex story...
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American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...world with qualities ranging from menace to a kind of grace in their surreal or hyper-real works include Sam Shepard , David Mamet , and Tony Kushner. The naturalism that governed the novels of Dreiser and the stories of Sherwood Anderson was intensified...
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Comedy

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...concerning topics like racism, sexual perversion, and murder, of playwrights such as Joe Orton , Harold Pinter , and David Mamet . Bibliography See B. N. Schilling, The Comic Spirit (1965); J. W. Krutch, Comedy and Conscience after the Restoration...
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Drama, Western

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Englands Tom Stoppard . In addition, two of late-20th-century Americas most important dramatists, Sam Shepard and David Mamet (as well as their followers and imitators), explored American culture with a kind of hyper-realism mingled with echoes...
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Martin, Steve

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...and Roxanne (1987) as well as in the despairing Pennies from Heaven (1981), the drama Grand Canyon (1991), David Mamet s dark The Spanish Prisoner (1998), and the black thriller Novocaine (2001). Martin also has written humorous pieces...

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