David Mamet

A Life in the Theatre
2012. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-230-37871-1
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

This comprehensive biography uses extensive theater and film archives to reveal Mamet's ideas on writing, acting, and directing, covering his beginnings in Chicago, his relationship to Judaism and reputation for machismo, as well as discussions of and excerpts from early plays and stories that have never before been referenced in print.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nadel, I.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

City of Fact South of the Northeast Kingdom Off-Loop South Side Gypsy The American Way Soldier of Fortune A Jew in the Nineties Kickass or Kissass Coda: Boxing with Brecht Afterword

Über Autor(innen)

Ira Nadel is Professor in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is the author of Leonard Cohen: A Life in Art (1994), Double Act: A Life of Tom Stoppard (2000), Ezra Pound: A Literary Life (2004), Joyce and His Publishers (2005), The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound (2007), and David Mamet: A Life in the Theatre (2008). Nadel is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a UBC Distinguished University Scholar, and the winner of the 1996 Medal for Canadian Biography. He has also been awarded a Killam Research Prize, Mellon and Dorot Fellowships at the Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, and a Beinecke Fellowship at Yale University, USA.