Mamet, David

Glengarry Glen Ross : a play by David Mamet ( Book )
23 editions published between 1982 and 2007 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,939 libraries worldwide
A story for everyone who works for a living. An examination of the machinations behind the scenes at a real estate office.

American buffalo : a play by David Mamet ( Book )
26 editions published between 1976 and 1996 in English and held by 1,729 libraries worldwide

Wag the dog ( Visual )
27 editions published between 1997 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 1,561 libraries worldwide
When the President is caught in a sex scandal less than 2 weeks before the election, "Mr. Fix-it" decides they need a war to distract the public's attention and he calls on Hollywood's top producer to create it.

Oleanna by David Mamet ( Book )
51 editions published between 1992 and 2009 in 9 languages and held by 1,501 libraries worldwide
In David Mamet's latest play, a male college instructor and his female student sit down to discuss her grades and in a terrifyingly short time become the participants in a modern reprise of the Inquisition. Innocuous remarks suddenly turn damning. Socratic dialogue gives way to heated assault. And the relationship between a somewhat fatuous teacher and his seemingly hapless pupil turns into a fiendishly accurate X ray of the mechanisms of power, censorship, and abuse.

A life in the theatre : a play by David Mamet ( Book )
17 editions published between 1975 and 1988 in English and held by 1,388 libraries worldwide
In the tradition of "The Prize," Kleveman gives readers the 21st-century chapter on the history, passion, and politics of oil and gas resources and the struggle to control them in a critical part of the world.

The verdict ( Visual )
22 editions published between 1982 and 2009 in English and held by 1,328 libraries worldwide
An alcoholic lawyer stumbles upon one last chance to redeem himself by taking on a controversial court case against seemingly insurmountable opposition.

Bambi vs. Godzilla : on the nature, purpose, and practice of the movie business by David Mamet ( Book )
13 editions published between 2007 and 2009 in English and held by 1,269 libraries worldwide
Playwright and screenwriter Mamet gives us a subversive inside look at Hollywood from the perspective of a filmmaker who has always played the game his own way. Who really reads the scripts at the film studios? How is a screenplay like a personals ad? Whose opinion matters when revising a screenplay? Why are there so many producers listed in movie credits? And what do those producers do, anyway? Refreshingly unafraid to offend, Mamet provides hilarious, surprising, and bracingly forthright answers to these and other questions about virtually every aspect of filmmaking, from concept to script to screen. He covers topics ranging from "How Scripts Got So Bad" to the oxymoron of "Manners in Hollywood." He takes us step-by-step through some of his favorite movie stunts and directorial tricks, and demonstrates that it is craft and crew, not stars and producers, that make great films.--From publisher description.

Speed-the-plow : a play by David Mamet ( Book )
16 editions published between 1985 and 2003 in English and held by 1,236 libraries worldwide
Speed-the-Plow's Broadway run is the most recent triumph of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's astonishingly productive career. "By turns hilarious and chilling....the culmination of this playwright's work to date....Riveting theater."-Frank Rich, New York Times; "A brilliant black comedy, a dazzling dissection of Hollywood cupidity and another tone poem by our foremost master of the language of moral epilepsy... On its deepest level it belongs with the darker disclosures of movie-biz pathology like Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon. In a sense Speed-the-Plow distills all of these to a stark quintessence: there's hardly a line in it that isn't somehow insanely funny or scarily insane... [It is a] scathingly comic play."-Jack Kroll, Newsweek.

True and false : heresy and common sense for the actor by David Mamet ( Book )
12 editions published between 1997 and 1999 in English and held by 1,159 libraries worldwide
The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, director, and teacher gives us a blunt, irreverent, unsparingly honest guide to acting that overturns conventional truths and tells aspiring actors what they really need to know. David Mamet leaves no acting tenet untouched: How to judge the role, approach the part, work with the playwright. How to concentrate and think about the scene. How to avoid becoming the Paint-by-Numbers Mechanical Actor, the "How'm I Doing?" Ham Actor, the over-the-top "Hollywood Huff" Actor. The right way to undertake auditions and rehearsals. The proper approach to agents, to individual jobs, and to the business in general. The question of talent.

Sexual perversity in Chicago and The duck variations : two plays by David Mamet ( Book )
19 editions published between 1976 and 2008 in 4 languages and held by 1,135 libraries worldwide
"'Sexual perversity in Chicago' is about two young men, Bernie and Danny, and two young women, Deborah and Joan, trying to sort out their sex lives amid filing cabinets and the nervous regimentation of the singles bar scene. 'The duck variations' is a dialogue between two old men sitting on a park bench. The conversation turns to the mating habits of ducks, but soon begins to reveal their feelings about natural law, friendship, and death." -- Back cover.