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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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Table of contents
- 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