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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מחבר ראשי: Tzioumakis, Yannis
פורמט: Licensed eBooks
שפה:אנגלית
יצא לאור: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press ©2009.
סדרה:American indies.
גישה מקוונת:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1r27vn
תוכן הענינים:
  • 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.