David Mamet and Film: Illusion/Disillusion in a Wounded Land

by Gay Brewer

Since winning the Pulitzer for his Glengarry Glen Ross, playwright David Mamet has written only one original, full-length play, Speed-the-Plow--yet he has written nearly ten original screenplays. His movement in this direction is both surprising and, ironically, inevitable.Studied here are Mamet's screenplays (such as The Postman Always Rings Twice and We're No Angels), the influence of film on his recent plays (The Shawl and Speed-the-Plow), his...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0899508340
• ISBN13: 9780899508344
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 221 Pages