Gender and Genre: Essays on David Mamet - Rilegato

9780312238698: Gender and Genre: Essays on David Mamet

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ISBN 10: 031223869X ISBN 13: 9780312238698

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001

Critical and popular debate about Mamet's work often centers 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. In turn, Mamet's celebrity colors responses to his work. The essays in this collection approach these controversial topics of gender and genre with verve, ranging from those which cast Mamet as a macho misogynist to those which understand his work as deeply ironic and even feminist. Topics include plays from the early Sexual Perversity in Chicago to the recent Jolly , two films, House of Games and Homicide , and Mamet's first novel, The Village.

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L'autore:

THOMAS P. ADLER Purdue UniversityKELLIE BEAN Marshall UniversityKAREN C. BLANSFIELD University of North Carolina, Chapel HillDIANE M. BORDEN University of the PacificRICHARD BRUCHER University of MaineLINDA DORFF University of HoustonIMTIAZ HABIB Old Dominion UniversityILKKA JOKI University of BrusselsJANET V. HAEDICKE Northeast Louisiana UniversitySTEVEN PRICE University of Wales, BangorROBERT SKLOOT University of Wisconsin, Madison

Contenuti:

Introduction
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

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