David Mamet And Film

Author : David Mamet
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140127224
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Directing Film written by David Mamet and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterclass on the art of directing from the Pulitzer Prize-winning (and Oscar and Tony-nominated) writer of Glengarry Glen Ross, Speed the Plow, The Verdict, and Wag the Dog Calling on his unique perspective as playwright, screenwriter, and director of his own critically acclaimed movies like House of Games, State and Main, and Things Change, David Mamet illuminates how a film comes to be. He looks at every aspect of directing—from script to cutting room—to show the many tasks directors undertake in reaching their prime objective: presenting a story that will be understood by the audience and has the power to be both surprising and inevitable at the same time. Based on a series of classes Mamet taught at Columbia University's film school, On Directing Film will be indispensible not only to students but to anyone interested in an overview of the craft of filmmaking. "Passion, clarity, commitment, intelligence—just what one would expect from Mamet." —Sidney Lumet, Academy Award-nominated director of 12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Network, and The Verdict

Author : David Mamet
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400034442
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bambi vs. Godzilla written by David Mamet and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-02-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and playwright: an exhilaratingly subversive inside look at Hollywood from a filmmaker who’s always played by his own rules. Who really reads the scripts at the film studios? How is a screenplay like a personals ad? Why are there so many producers listed in movie credits? And what on earth do those producers do anyway? Refreshingly unafraid to offend, Mamet provides hilarious, surprising, and refreshingly forthright answers to these and other questions about every aspect of filmmaking from concept to script to screen. A bracing, no-holds-barred examination of the strange contradictions of Tinseltown, Bambi vs. Godzilla dissects the movies with Mamet’s signature style and wit.

Author : David Mamet
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307806499
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book True and False written by David Mamet and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of our most brilliantly iconoclastic playwrights takes on the art of profession of acting with these words: invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school. Acting schools, “interpretation,” “sense memory,” “The Method”—David Mamet takes a jackhammer to the idols of contemporary acting, while revealing the true heroism and nobility of the craft. He shows actors how to undertake auditions and rehearsals, deal with agents and directors, engage audiences, and stay faithful to the script, while rejecting the temptations that seduce so many of their colleagues. Bracing in its clarity, exhilarating in its common sense, True and False is as shocking as it is practical, as witty as it is instructive, and as irreverent as it is inspiring.

Author : Gaylord Brewer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book David Mamet and Film written by Gaylord Brewer and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since winning the Pulitzer for his Glengarry Glen Ross, playwright David Mamet has written only one original, full-length play, Speed-the-Plow--yet he has written nearly ten original screenplays. His movement in this direction is both surprising and, ironically, inevitable. Studied here are Mamet's screenplays (such as The Postman Always Rings Twice and We're No Angels), the influence of film on his recent plays (The Shawl and Speed-the-Plow), his theory of directing refined from his writerly principles of montage storytelling, and the reciprocal impact of his films and plays are discussed. Particular emphasis is placed on the author-director relationship in House of Games and Things Change. A complete filmography includes his 1992 work on the film version of Glengarry Glen Ross and Hoffa.

Author : David Mamet
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homicide written by David Mamet and published by Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 1992 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bobby Gold is a smooth-talking Jewish homicide detective. He is annoyed when he becoems involved in a routine investigation into the murder of an elderly Jewish woman in a black ghetto. He is more interested in a high-profile murder case that he nd his partner are on the verge of breaking. But the old woman's murder draws him into a world of anti-Semitism and Jewish terrorism, where his loyalties are blurred, and he is forced to confront his own attitudes about being Jewish.

Author : David Mamet
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802191819
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speed-the-Plow written by David Mamet and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speed-the-Plow is an exhilaratingly sharp, comical, disturbing play about the power of money and sex in Hollywood, and how they corrupt two movie producers. Speed-the-Plow opened at Lincoln Center to sold-out seats, rave reviews and much fanfare in March 1988—staring Madonna, Joe Mantegna, and Ron Silver—and later moved to and had a long-standing run on Broadway.

Author : David Mamet
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140089810
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing in Restaurants written by David Mamet and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1987-10-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Essays in direct line from Stanislavsky, Chekhov, Shaw, and Brecht" —Mike Nichols A collection of essays from Pulitzer Prize winning playwright David Mamet adressing many issues in contemporary American theater Temporarily putting aside his role as playwright, director, and screen-writer, David Mamet digs deep and delivers thirty outrageously diverse vignettes. On subjects ranging from the vanishing American pool hall, family vacations, and the art of being a bitch, to the role of today's actor, his celebrated contemporaries and predecessors, and his undying commitment to the theater, David Mamet's concise style, lean dialogue, and gut-wrenching honesty give us a unique view of the world as he sees it.

Author : David Mamet
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849437017
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book House of Games written by David Mamet and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a new adaptation of David Mamet's film, Harvard-educated psychoanalyst Margaret Ford is celebrated for her best selling book 'Driven! Compulsion and Obsession in Every Day Life'.Stepping in to help one of her patients settle his gambling debts, she compromises her professional reputation and is drawn into the seedy underworld of the House of Games poker club. Seduced by charismatic hustler Mike, Margaret convinces herself that she can make an academic study of the con. Before she realises it, Margaret is entangled in a fast-paced complex thriller.

Author : David Mamet
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573618192
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Woods written by David Mamet and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1979 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Mamet
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350129003
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Uses Of The Knife written by David Mamet and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now published in the Bloomsbury Revelations series, this is a classic work on the power and importance of drama by renowned American playwright, screenwriter and essayist David Mamet. In this short but arresting series of essays, David Mamet explains the necessity, purpose and demands of drama. A celebration of the ties that bind art to life, Three Uses of the Knife is an enthralling read for anyone who has sat anxiously waiting for the lights to go up on Act 1. In three tightly woven essays of characteristic force and resonance, Mamet speaks about the connection of art to life, language to power, imagination to survival, public spectacle to private script. Self-assured and filled with autobiographical touches Three Uses of the Knife is a call to art and arms, a manifesto that reminds us of the singular power of the theatre to keep us sane, whole and human.