Temporarily putting aside his role as playwright, director, and screen-writer, David Mamet digs deep and delivers thirty outrageously diverse vignettes. On subjects ranging from the vanishing American pool hall, family vacations, and the art of being a bitch, to the role of today's actor, his celebrated contemporaries and predecessors, and his undying commitment to the theater, David Mamet's concise style, lean dialogue, and gut-wrenching honesty give us a unique view of the world as he sees it.
Temporarily putting aside his role as playwright, director, and screen-writer, David Mamet digs deep and delivers thirty outrageously diverse vignettes. On subjects ranging from the vanishing American pool hall, family vacations, and the art of being a bitch, to the role of today's actor, his celebrated contemporaries and predecessors, and his undying commitment to the theater, David Mamet's concise style, lean dialogue, and gut-wrenching honesty give us a unique view of the world as he sees it.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
David Mamet's numerous plays include Oleanna, Glengarry Glen Ross (winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award), American Buffalo, Speed-the-Plow, Boston Marriage, November, Race and The Anarchist. He wrote the screenplays for such films as The Verdict, The Untouchables and Wag the Dog, and has twice been nominated for an Academy Award. He has written and directed ten films, including Homicide, The Spanish Prisoner, State and Main, House of Games, Spartan and Redbelt. In addition, he wrote the novels The Village, The Old Religion, Wilson and many books of nonfiction, including Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose and Practice of the Movie Business; Theatre; Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama and the New York Times bestseller The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture. His HBO film Phil Spector, starring Al Pacino and Helen Mirren, aired in 2013 and earned him two Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Writing and Outstanding Directing. He was co-creator and executive producer of the CBS television show The Unit and is a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company.
Inhaltsangabe
Writing in RestaurantsPreface Acknowledgments I. Writing in Restaurants Capture-the-Flag, Monotheism, and the Techniques of Arbitration A National Dream-Life Radio Drama A Tradition of the Theater as Art First Principles Stanislavsky and the American Bicentennial An Unhappy Family Some Thoughts on Writing in Restaurants II. Exuvial Magic Exuvial Magic: An Essay Concerning Fashion True Stories of Bitches Notes for a Catalog for Raymond Saunders Decadence A Family Vacation Semantic Chickens Chicago On Paul Ickovic's Photographs A Playwright in Hollywood Oscars Pool Halls Things I Have Learned Playing Poker on the Hill III. Life in the Theater Epitaph for Tennessee Williams Regarding A Life in the Theater Concerning The Water Engine Decay: Some Thoughts for Actors, Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecture, Harvard, February 10, 1986 Notes on The Cherry Orchard Acting Realism Against Amplification Address to the American Theater Critics Convention at the Tyrone Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 25, 1978 Observations of a Backstage Wife
Writing in RestaurantsPreface Acknowledgments I. Writing in Restaurants Capture-the-Flag, Monotheism, and the Techniques of Arbitration A National Dream-Life Radio Drama A Tradition of the Theater as Art First Principles Stanislavsky and the American Bicentennial An Unhappy Family Some Thoughts on Writing in Restaurants II. Exuvial Magic Exuvial Magic: An Essay Concerning Fashion True Stories of Bitches Notes for a Catalog for Raymond Saunders Decadence A Family Vacation Semantic Chickens Chicago On Paul Ickovic's Photographs A Playwright in Hollywood Oscars Pool Halls Things I Have Learned Playing Poker on the Hill III. Life in the Theater Epitaph for Tennessee Williams Regarding A Life in the Theater Concerning The Water Engine Decay: Some Thoughts for Actors, Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecture, Harvard, February 10, 1986 Notes on The Cherry Orchard Acting Realism Against Amplification Address to the American Theater Critics Convention at the Tyrone Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 25, 1978 Observations of a Backstage Wife
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