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The Plays, Screenplays and Films of David Mamet

Steven Price

David Mamet is arguably the most important living American playwright. This Guide provides an up-to-date study of the key criticism on the full range of Mamet's work. It engages with his work in film as well as in the theatre, offering a synoptic overview of, and critical commentary on, the scholarly criticism of each play, screenplay or film.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Red Globe Press
  • Publish Date: Oct 1st, 2008
  • Pages: 192
  • Language: English
  • Edition: 2008 - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.30in - 5.40in - 0.50in - 0.45lb
  • EAN: 9780230555358
  • Categories: Film - History & CriticismAmerican - General

About the Author

Price, Steven: - Steven Price is Reader in English at Bangor University. He has published extensively on British and American drama, and is the author of A History of the Screenplay; The Screenplay: Authorship, Theory and Criticism and The Plays, Screenplays and Films of David Mamet. From 1994-2006, he wrote the section on American drama for The Year's Work in English Studies (OUP), a journal for which he was also Associate Editor from 1999-2006. Steven Price is also the editor of Journal of Screenwriting. He has a long-standing interest in Twelve Angry Men, and extensive teaching and research interests in the American drama of this period, having taught a course on Modern American Drama for over twenty years at Bangor University.