03065oam 2200637I 450 991078398010332120230617035340.01-135-88355-61-135-88356-41-280-17737-30-203-64206-610.4324/9780203642061 (CKB)1000000000254353(EBL)200855(OCoLC)475912485(SSID)ssj0000105843(PQKBManifestationID)11130798(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000105843(PQKBWorkID)10105254(PQKB)11036665(MiAaPQ)EBC200855(Au-PeEL)EBL200855(CaPaEBR)ebr10163113(CaONFJC)MIL17737(OCoLC)252703456(EXLCZ)99100000000025435320130331d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe art of crime the plays and films of Harold Pinter and David Mamet /edited by Leslie KaneNew York :Routledge,2004.1 online resource (174 p.)Studies in modern dramaDescription based upon print version of record.1-138-98752-2 0-415-96830-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 A Poetics for Thugs; 2 "You'll Never Be without a Police Siren": Pinter and the Subject of Law; 3 Harold Pinter's "Before the Law"; 4 Harold Pinter's Ashes to Ashes: The Criminality of Indifference and the Failure of Empathy; 5 Comedy and Crime: Pinter's Primal Power; 6 Lost in the Funhouse: Spectacle and Crime in Pinter's Screenplay of Kafka's The Trial; 7 Lie Detectors: Pinter/Mamet and the Victorian Concept of Crime; 8 Gradations of Criminality in the Plays of David Mamet9 Melville's The Confidence Man and His Descendants in David Mamet's Work10 Fantasy Crimes/Fictional Lives: Lakeboat; 11 David Mamet's House of Games and the Allegory of Performance; 12 More Uses of the Knife as Signifier in The Cryptogram, The Old Religion, and The Edge; 13 A Theater of the Self: Mamet's The Edge as a Figura of Otherness; 14 Suckered Again: The Perfect Patsy and The Spanish Prisoner; Contributors; IndexThis collection of 15 original essays, assembled by renowned Mamet and Pinter scholar Leslie Kane, examines the pervasiveness of crime and criminality in the plays and screenplays of two of the most influential contemporary dramatists.Studies in modern drama.Criminals in literatureCrime in literatureCriminals in literature.Crime in literature.822/.914093556Kane Leslie1945-1479886FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910783980103321The art of crime3696258UNINA