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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Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2001

ISBN

9780230109209

Topic

Literatur

Subtopic

Moderne Literaturkritik

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Mamet’s Three Children’s Plays: Where the Wilder Things Are
Plowing the Buffalo, Fucking the Fruits: (M)others in American Buffalo and Speed-the-Plow
Disguise in Love: Gender and Desire in House of Games and Speed-the-Plow
Prophecy and Parody in Edmond
Demotic Male Desire and Female Subjectivity in David Mamet: The Split Space of the Women of Edmond
Oleanna, or, The Play of Pedagogy
A Few Good Men: Collusion and Violence in Oleanna
Women on the Verge, Unite!
“It’s the way that you are with your children”: The Matriarchal Figure in Mamet’s Late Work
Reinscribing “the Fairy”: The Knife and the Mystification of Male Mythology in The Cryptogram
Mamet’s Novelistic Voice
“A small price to pay”: Superman, Metafamily, and Hero in David Mamet’s Oedipal House of Games
Man Without a Gun: Mamet, Masculinity, and Mystification
Contributors
Index