The Spanish prisoner /
Despite more than a passing nod to such crowdpleasing classics as Hitchcock's North by Northwest, playwright-turned-independent filmmaker David Mamet's The Spanish Prisoner is a particularly idiosyncratic film that betrays its origin outside the Hollywood mainstream. Featuring a convoluted...
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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lenguaje: | inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press
©2009.
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| Colección: | American indies.
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1r27vn |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : "You don't know who anyone is"
- From independent to "indie" cinema
- David Mamet and "indie" cinema
- "Indie" film at work : producing and distributing The Spanish prisoner
- "That's what you just think you saw!" : narrative and film style in The Spanish prisoner
- Playing with cinema : the master of the con game film
- Conclusion
- Filmography : David Mamet in American cinema and television.