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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 refre...

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A new drama by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Glengarry Glen Ross.

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David Mamet's new Oval Office satire depicts one day in the life of a beleaguered American commander-in-chief. It's November in a Presidential election year, and incumbent Charles Smith's chances for reelection are looking grim. Approval ratings are down, his money's running out, and nuclear war might be imminent. Though his staff has thrown in the towel and his wife has begun to prepare for her post-White House life, Chuck isn't ready to give...

An explosive new drama from one of our most acclaimed playwrights.

The Duck Variations is a dialogue between two old men sitting on a park bench. The conversation turns to the mating habits of ducks, but soon begins to reveal their feelings about natural law, friendship, and death. New York magazine has called The Duck Variations "a gorgeously written, wonderfully observant piece whose timing and atmosphere are close to flawless.

A group of low-ranking real estate salesmen are trying to survive in a cut-throat office culture. But when two of them devise a plot to redress the company's wrongs, the resulting turmoil increases the pressure to unbearable levels. Winner of the 1984 Tony Award(R) and Pulitzer Prize. An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring: Joe Mantegna as Ricky Roma Gordon Clapp as David Moss Kyle Colerider-Krugh as Detective Baylen Richard Dre...

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House of Games is a psychological thriller in which a young woman psychiatrist falls prey to an elaborate and ingenious con game by one of her patients who entraps her in a series of criminal escapades. Ties in with movie to be released in September. 8 pages of black-and-white photographs.

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In these mordant, elegant, and often disquieting essays, the internationally acclaimed dramatist creates a sort of autobiography by strobe light, one that is both mysterious and starkly revealing.The pieces in The Cabin are about places and things: the suburbs of Chicago, where as a boy David Mamet helplessly watched his stepfather terrorize his sister, New York City, where as a young man he had to eat his way through a mountain of fried matzo...

One of America's most provocative dramatists conquers new territory with this droll comedy of errors set in a Victorian drawing room. "One of Mamet's most satisfying and accomplished plays, and one of the funniest American comedies in years."--"New York Post.

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In den USA sind David Mamets Vorlesungen über Filmregie, die er im Herbst 1987 an der Filmschule der Columbia University hielt, eines der Standardwerke zur Regie- und Drehbuchtechnik.»Ein guter Autor wird nur dann besser, wenn er lernt zu streichen, das Schmückende, das Beschreibende, das Narrative und vor allem das tief Gefühlte und Bedeutungsvolle herauszunehmen. Das Drehbuchschreiben ist eine Kunst, die auf Logik beruht. Sie besteht aus der...

A new collection of prose writings from the author of "Writing in Restaurants". Mamet discusses his parallel experience in cinema as screenwriter ("The Untouchables") and writer-director ("House of Games"). There are also pieces on being a Jew, politics, acting and Disneyland.

In this outrageous new comedy, playwright Mamet skewers everyth ing from sexuality to the justice system to world peace. In a world where nothing is, as it seems - prepare to be offended!

Welche Bedeutung hat das Drama für unser Leben? Der Pulitzer-Preisträger, Dramatiker, Romancier, Drehbuchautor und Regisseur David Mamet führt uns unsere beharrlichen Versuche, dem Leben und der Welt in der wir leben, einen Sinn zu geben, vor Augen.

Was macht ein gutes Drama aus? Welche Bedeutung hat das Drama für unser Leben? In diesen drei Essays führt uns der Pulitzer-Preisträger, Dramatiker, Essayist, Drehbuchautor und Regisseur David Mamet unsere beharrlichen Versuche, unserem Leben und der Welt, in der wir leben, einen Sinn zu geben, vor Augen. Ähnlich wie schon in Die Kunst der Filmregie, sind Mamets Gedanken und Reflexionen auch in diesem Buch weitaus mehr als ein Handbuch oder ei...