David Mamet and male friendship : buddy plays and buddy films / by Arthur Holmberg.
Throughout most of history, deep male bonds anchored a man's life. Why, then, are male friendships so impoverished in America today? Mamet's plays and films dramatize the conflicts, contradictions, and covert affection between men. No other American playwright has explored the war zone we...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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Table of Contents:
- Buddy plays and buddy films: Speed-the-plow
- Buddy cops: Homicide
- Honor among thieves? American buffalo
- The cycle of friendship: A life in the theater
- Comrades in competition: Glengarry Glen Ross
- Friends without benefits: Sexual perversity in Chicago
- Is it legal? Romance
- The dialog of life: Duck variations
- Climbing Plato's ladder: Edmond.