LEADER 03065oam 2200637I 450 001 9910783980103321 005 20230617035340.0 010 $a1-135-88355-6 010 $a1-135-88356-4 010 $a1-280-17737-3 010 $a0-203-64206-6 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203642061 035 $a(CKB)1000000000254353 035 $a(EBL)200855 035 $a(OCoLC)475912485 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000105843 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11130798 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000105843 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10105254 035 $a(PQKB)11036665 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC200855 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL200855 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10163113 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL17737 035 $a(OCoLC)252703456 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000254353 100 $a20130331d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe art of crime $ethe plays and films of Harold Pinter and David Mamet /$fedited by Leslie Kane 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2004. 215 $a1 online resource (174 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in modern drama 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-98752-2 311 $a0-415-96830-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aBook 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 Mamet 327 $a9 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; Index 330 $aThis collection of 15 original essays, assembled by renowned Mamet and Pinter scholar Leslie Kane, examines the pervasiveness of crime and criminality in the plays and screenplays of two of the most influential contemporary dramatists. 410 0$aStudies in modern drama. 606 $aCriminals in literature 606 $aCrime in literature 615 0$aCriminals in literature. 615 0$aCrime in literature. 676 $a822/.914093556 701 $aKane$b Leslie$f1945-$01479886 801 0$bFlBoTFG 801 1$bFlBoTFG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910783980103321 996 $aThe art of crime$93696258 997 $aUNINA