Crossings : David Mamet's work in different genres and media /
Callens, Johan.
Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub.,
2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Transgression, passing and interactivity -- David Mamet, The American way : "Loud and nasty, that's the only way it sticks" / Ira Nadel -- "The grift has a gentle touch" ... or maybe not? / Ronald Geerts -- David Mamet : welcome to the family / Christopher Bigsby -- Televisuality in the films of David Mamet / Steven Price -- Intimacy, interactivity, and the auteur : David Mamet in the age of intermedia / Bruce Barton -- Part II. From micro shifts to macro economics -- The rhythms of David Mamet / Roger Bechtel -- Offstage and offscreen space in Mamet's theater/film "Translations" / Deborah Geis -- Mamet off-stage : dramatic patterns in The Old Religion / Günter Beck -- Mamet and naturalism : Lakeboat and The Old Neighborhood / Dennis Carroll -- Chekhov among friends : Mamet's Vanya, or adaptation of through a Russian looking glass / Christophe Collard -- Adapting Oleanna for the screen : film adaptation and the institutional apparatus of American independent cinema / Yannis Tzioumakis -- Part III. Tragic/comic turns, gender and politics -- The tragic turn in the film adaptation of Glengarry Glen Ross / Brenda Murphy -- In edgewise : parodic responses to David Mamet / James M. Cherry -- Frogs for snakes or framing American Buffalo / Johan Callens -- Coming of age : Mamet at sixty / Robert Vorlicky.
Mamet, David