Gender and genre essays on David Mamet
Critical and popular debate about Mamet's work often centres on whether we should read his misogynist, unloving characters as reflecting his own misogyny or should recognize a Mametian irony in his memorable depictions. Irony is intimately related to issues of genre and to audience expectations...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, N.Y. :
Palgrave
2001
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b18507724*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Mamet's "Three Children's Plays" - where the wilder things are, T.P. Adler; plowing the buffalo, fucking the fruits - (m)others in "American Buffalo" and "Speed the Plow", J.V. Haedicke; disguise in love - gender and desire in "House of Games" and "Speed the Plow", S. Price; prophecy and parody in "Edmond", R. Brucher; demotic male desire and female subjectivity - the split space of Mamet's fictional women, I. Habib; "Oleanna", or the play of pedagogy, R. Skloot; a few good men - collusion and violence in "Oleanna", K. Bean; women on the verge, unite!, K.C. Blansfield; "It's the way that you are with your children" - the matriarchal figure in the later plays of David Mamet, L. Kane; re-encoding "The Fairy" - knowing masculinity in "The Cryptogram", L. Dorff; Mamet's novelistic voice, I. Joki; "A small price to pay" - superman, meta-family and hero in David Mamet's Oedipal "House of Games", C.C. Hudgins; man without a gun - Mamet, mystification and masculinity, D.M. Borden
