Лучшие книги Дэвида Алана Мэмета

Курс лекций американского сценариста и режиссера, лауреата Пулитцеровской премии Дэвида Мэмета (род. 1947), прочитанный им на факультете кино Колумбийского университета осенью 1987 года. Рассматривая все аспекты режиссуры — от сценария до монтажа, — Мэмет разбирает каждую из задач, поставленных перед режиссером на пути к главной цели — представлению аудитории одновременно понятной и удивительной истории.

Дон Дуброу – старьёвщик из американского городка, ведёт расхлябанный образ жизни человека полукриминального характера. У него есть друг Уолтер Коул по прозвищу Учитель и юнец Боб – шестёрка. Однажды в его магазин приходит посетитель, который даёт девяносто долларов за пятицентовую монету с изображением американского бизона. Дон понимает, что возможно, продешевил и решает обокрасть этого человека, прихватив не только свой пятицентовик, но и всю коллекцию этого нумизмата. Эта пьеса хорошо известна в США, более того, она была экранизирована режиссёром Майклом Корренте в 1996 году с участием Денниса Франца (в роли Дона) и Дастина Хоффмана (в…

Молодая работница карандашной фабрики в городе Атланта, штат Джорджия, найдена убитой. В убийстве девушки обвинен управляющий фабрикой Лео Франк, хотя прямых улик не найдено. Совершить убийство мог и другой человек, чернокожий уборщик той же фабрики, но суд, уступая общественному мнению, склонен считать преступником еврея Франка…

Дэвид Мэмет (р. 1947), американский драматург, эссеист и прозаик, лауреат Пулитцеровской премии, с поразительным мастерством передает граничащее с безумием состояние обвиняемого во время суда и после приговора, отбывающего первые месяцы пожизненного заключения и не подозревающего, какая страшная судьба ожидает его в недалеком будущем.

Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize, David Mamet’s scalding comedy is about small-time, cutthroat real estate salesmen trying to grind out a living by pushing plots of land on reluctant buyers in a never-ending scramble for their fair share of the American dream. Here is Mamet at his very best, writing with brutal power about the tough life of tough characters who cajole, connive, wheedle, and wheel and deal for a piece of the action—where closing a sale can mean a brand new Cadillac but losing one can mean losing it all. This masterpiece of American drama is now a major motion picture starring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alan Arkin, Alec…

In David Mamet's latest play, a male college instructor and his female student sit down to discuss her grades and in a terrifyingly short time become the participants in a modern reprise of the Inquisition. Innocuous remarks suddenly turn damning. Socratic dialogue gives way to heated assault. And the relationship between a somewhat fatuous teacher and his seemingly hapless pupil turns into a fiendishly accurate X ray of the meechanisms of power, censorship, and abuse.

The purpose of theater, like magic like religion… is to inspire cleansing awe. With bracing directness and aphoristic authority, one of our greatest living playwrights addresses the questions: What makes good drama? And why does drama matter in an age that is awash in information and entertainment? David Mamet believes that the tendency to dramatize is essential to human nature, that we create drama out of everything from today’s weather to next year’s elections. But the highest expression of this drive remains the theater.

With a cultural range that encompasses Shakespeare, Bretcht, and Ibsen, Death of a Salesman and Bad Day at Black Rock, Mamet shows us how to distinguish true drama from its false variants. He considers the impossibly difficult progression between one act and the next and the mysterious function of the soliloquy. The result, in Three Uses of the Knife, is an electrifying treatise on the playwright’s art that is also a strikingly original work of moral and aesthetic philosophy.

Дэвид Мэмет - человек невероятно раз­носторонний, пишет романы, эссе, стихи, книги для де­тей. Он известный драматург ("Американский бизон", 1976, "Гленгерри Глен Росс", Пулитцеровская премия 1984), знаменитый киносценарист ("Американцы", "Вердикт", "Почтальон всегда звонит дважды", "Хвост виляет собакой" и др.). К тому же он нередко выступа­ет режиссером, а в некоторых случаях и продюсером фильмов по своим сценариям и играет в них.
В своих эссе он остроумно, резко, темпераментно рассматривает самые существенные вопросы совре­менности от политики и религии до театра, кино и ку­линарии. Много пишет Мэмет и о своем отношении к Израилю, иудаизму, ассимиляции, к богатым и бедным синагогам, размышляет он и об обычаях евреев отды­хать, путешествовать, обставлять свое жилье и многом другом. В эту книгу вошли эссе на темы жизни евреев в диаспоре из шести сборников.

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.

Абсурдный судебный процесс – сюжет довольно распространенный. Но у данной версии расхожего сюжета есть та особенность, что большинство участников бредового судилища, включая Обвинителя, Защитника и Судью, по существу, виновны не менее Обвиняемого. И пафос пьесы можно охарактеризовать выражением «все хороши».

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Glengarry Glen Ross, here is a collection of thirty-two one-act plays and short dramatic pieces that David Mamet himself considers to be some of the best writing he has ever done.

David Mamet is one of America’s most celebrated playwrights. The author of plays, screenplays, poetry, essays, and children’s books, he has won many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Glengarry Glen Ross.

The Obie award-winning Sexual Perversity in Chicago is about two office workers, Danny and Bernie, on the make in the swinging singles scene of the early 1970s. Danny meets Deborah in a library and soon they are not only lovers but roommates, and their story quickly evolves into a modern romance in all its sticky details.

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.”

The transcripts take the reader on an intellectually breathtaking tour through David Mamet's baroque, fragmented world, where nothing is certain except the certainty bestowed by the academy.

After the Cola riots, the fire at the Stop 'n' Shop, and the death of my kitten, what remains? Does the Joke Code still operate? Has anyone seen my copy of Bongazine? Can Jane of Trent unlock this paranoia? What were Chet and Donna doing in the boathouse? And just who does Ginger think she is? In playing with the ideas of perception, accuracy, and truth, Wilson dares to doubt them all.

The Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, director and teacher has written a blunt, unsparingly honest guide to acting. In True and False David Mamet overturns conventional opinion and tells aspiring actors what they really need to know. He leaves no aspect of acting untouched: how to judge the role, approach the part, work with the playwright; the right way to undertake auditions and the proper approach to agents and the business in general. True and False slaughters a wide range of sacred cows and yet offers an invaluable guide to the acting profession

Anarchist [an/er-kist] n.1. A person who opposes the authority of the state.2. A person who causes disorder or upheaval.3. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet’s new play about one woman who is put away for life, and another who is committed to her rehabilitation. “Students of Mamet won’t want to miss it; I was engaged and compelled throughout. Indeed, The Anarchist is a counterweight to the conventional dramatic tropes of family, love and death.” –Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune“The Anarchist leaves no shortage of material for after-theater debate.” –Elysa Gardner, USA Today“Being challenged to rethink your own perceptions and prejudices is a refreshing thrill of the sort that has otherwise been in short supply so far this season…it makes The Anarchist one of Mamet’s most trenchant and timely offerings ever.” –Matthew Murray, Talkin’ Broadway “The viewer experiences Mamet’s signature rhythmic language. In what is like a ping-pong game, this battle of two women over freedom, power, money, religion—and the lack thereof, remains compelling during the eighty-five minutes it runs…Powerful, thought-provoking, and current.” –LA Splash MagazineDavid Mamet is a playwright, essayist and screenwriter who directs for both the stage and film. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Glengarry Glen Ross. His plays include China Doll, Race, The Anarchist, American Buffalo, Speed-the-Plow, November, The Cryptogram, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Lakeboat, The Water Engine, The Duck Variations, Reunion, The Blue Hour, The Shawl, Bobby gould in Hell, Edmond, Romance, The Old Neighborhood and his adaptation of The Voysey Inheritance.

A major hit on Broadway with James Spader, Richard Thomas, Kerry WashingtonA cinch to be nominated for a Best Play Tony with numerous nominations expected for the actors and productionWill see many regional productions after the Broadway run endsFirst TCG publication of the much lauded American playwright

"The finest American author of his generation."—[i]Sunday MailThis complex new work from celebrated playwright David Mamet revolves around a wealthy man, his young fiancée, and an airplane. The man has just bought a new plane as a wedding present for the girl. He intends to go into semiretirement and enjoy himself.
While in the process of leaving his office, and
giving last minute instructions to his young assistant, he takes one
final phone call.The new, widely anticipated play premieres on Broadway this fall, starring Tony and
Academy Award-winning actor Al Pacino, for whom the play was written. Pacino described the role of billionaire Mickey Ross as «one of the most daunting and challenging roles I've been given to explore in the theater» and declared, «it blew me away.»[b]David Mamet is an American playwright, director, and screenwriter whose most notable works include [i]Glengarry Glen Ross (Pulitzer Prize for Drama), [i]American Buffalo, [i]Speed-the-Plow, [i]Oleanna, [i]November, [i]Race, and [i]The Anarchist. Besides the film adaptations
of his plays, his major screenwriting credits include [i]The Postman Always Rings Twice, [i]The Verdict, [i]Rising Sun, [i]Wag the Dog, and [i]Hannibal. Over the course of his prolific career, Mamet has earned Tony Award nominations, Academy Award nominations, Drama Desk Awards, and «Screenwriter of the Year» from the London Critics Circle Film Awards.