Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama Tapa dura - 1998
de David Mamet
What makes good drama? How does drama matter in our lives? Here one of America's most respected writers reminds us all of the secret powers of the play. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, screenwriter, poet, essayist, and director, David Mamet celebrates the absolute necessity of drama in our lurching attempts to make sense of ourselves and our world.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, screenwriter, poet, essayist, and director, David Mamet celebrates the absolute necessity of drama - and the experience of great plays - in our lurching attempts to make sense of ourselves and our world. 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, the public spectacle to the private script. The essays in the book are an eloquent reminder of how life is filled with the small scenes of tragedy and comedy that can be described only as drama. Mamet also writes of bad theater; of what it takes to write a play, and the often impossibly difficult progression from act to act; the nature of soliloquy; the contentless drama and empty theatrics of politics and popular entertainment; the ubiquity of stage and literary conventions in the most ordinary of lives; and the uselessness, finally, of drama - or any art - as ideology or propaganda. Self-assured, filled with autobiographical touches, and attentive to the challenges to theater presented by a media world of simulacra, this book is a bracing call to art and to arms, a manifesto that reminds us of the singular power of the theater to keep us sane, whole, and human.
Detalles
- Título Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama
- Autor David Mamet
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Edición First Edition
- Páginas 96
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Columbia University Press, New York
- Fecha de publicación 1998-01-20
- Features Index
- ISBN 9780231110884 / 023111088X
- Peso 0.5 libras (0.23 kg)
- Dimensiones 7.29 x 5.29 x 0.73 pulgadas (18.52 x 13.44 x 1.85 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Drama, Arts
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 97-23606
- Dewey Decimal Code 808.2
Reseñas en medios
Citas
- Booklist, 02/01/1998, Page 893
- Library Journal, 03/01/1998, Page 91
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