Bambi vs. Godzilla

Bambi vs. Godzilla
Author: David Mamet
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2008-02-12
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1400034442

From the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and playwright: an exhilaratingly subversive inside look at Hollywood from a filmmaker who’s always played by his own rules. Who really reads the scripts at the film studios? How is a screenplay like a personals ad? Why are there so many producers listed in movie credits? And what on earth do those producers do anyway? Refreshingly unafraid to offend, Mamet provides hilarious, surprising, and refreshingly forthright answers to these and other questions about every aspect of filmmaking from concept to script to screen. A bracing, no-holds-barred examination of the strange contradictions of Tinseltown, Bambi vs. Godzilla dissects the movies with Mamet’s signature style and wit.

The 50 Greatest Cartoons

The 50 Greatest Cartoons
Author: Jerry Beck
Publisher: Turner Pub
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1994
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781878685490

Showcases some of the greatest cartoons of all time, including characters from Disney, Warner Brothers, Fleischer Studio, Walter Lantz, MGM, and others.

Bambi vs. Godzilla

Bambi vs. Godzilla
Author: David Mamet
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2008-12-30
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 030748193X

From the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and playwright: an exhilaratingly subversive inside look at Hollywood from a filmmaker who’s always played by his own rules. Who really reads the scripts at the film studios? How is a screenplay like a personals ad? Why are there so many producers listed in movie credits? And what on earth do those producers do anyway? Refreshingly unafraid to offend, Mamet provides hilarious, surprising, and refreshingly forthright answers to these and other questions about every aspect of filmmaking from concept to script to screen. A bracing, no-holds-barred examination of the strange contradictions of Tinseltown, Bambi vs. Godzilla dissects the movies with Mamet’s signature style and wit.

Boston Marriage

Boston Marriage
Author: David Mamet
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2000
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822219446

THE STORY: Anna and Claire are two bantering, scheming women of fashion who have long lived together on the fringes of upper-class society. Anna has just become the mistress of a wealthy man, from whom she has received an enormous emerald and an

Henrietta

Henrietta
Author: David Mamet
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1999
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780618004164

An ambitious pig overcomes prejudice while following her dream of attending law school.

The Wicked Son

The Wicked Son
Author: David Mamet
Publisher: Schocken
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2009-09-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0805211578

David Mamet's interest in anti-Semitism is not limited to the modern face of an ancient hatred but encompasses as well the ways in which many Jews have internalized that hatred. Using the metaphor of the Wicked Son at the Passover seder (the child who asks, "What does this story mean to you?") Mamet confronts what he sees as an insidious predilection among some Jews to exclude themselves from the equation and to seek truth and meaning anywhere--in other religions, political movements, mindless entertainment--but in Judaism itself. He also explores the ways in which the Jewish tradition has long been and still remains the Wicked Son in the eyes of the world. Written with the searing honesty and verbal brilliance that is the hallmark of Mamet's work, The Wicked Son is a powerfully thought-provoking look at one of the most destructive and tenacious forces in contemporary life.

Keep Your Pantheon

Keep Your Pantheon
Author: David Mamet
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 53
Release: 2009
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0573663211

11m / Comedy In Keep Your Pantheon, an impoverished acting company on the edge of eviction is offered a lucrative engagement. But through a series of riotous mishaps, the troupe finds its problems have actually multiplied, and that they are about to learn a new meaning for the term "dying on stage."

Some Freaks

Some Freaks
Author: David Mamet
Publisher: Penguin Group
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1991
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780140124347

The Woods, Lakeboat, Edmond

The Woods, Lakeboat, Edmond
Author: David Mamet
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2014-10-03
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0802191452

Three plays from the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award–winning author of Glengarry Glen Ross and American Buffalo. The Woods is a modern dramatic parable about, as Mamet put it, “why men and women have a hard time trying to get along with each other.” The story features a young man and woman spending a night in his family’s cabin where they experience passion, then disillusionment, but are in the end reconciled by mutual need. In Lakeboat, an Ivy League college student takes a summer job as a cook aboard a Great Lakes cargo ship where the crewmembers—men of all ages—share their wild fantasies about sex, gambling, and violence. Mamet also wrote the screenplay to the 2000 film starring Peter Falk and Denis Leary. In Edmond, a white-collar New York City man is set morally adrift after a visit to a fortune-teller. He soon leaves an unfulfilling marriage to find sex, adventure, companionship, and, ultimately, the meaning of his existence. Mamet also wrote the screenplay for the 2005 film starring William H. Macy. “[A] beautifully conceived love story.” —Chicago Daily News on The Woods “[Mamet’s] language has never been so precise, pure, and affecting.” —Richard Eder of The New York Times on The Woods “Richly overheard talk and loopy, funny construction.” —Michael Feingold in The Village Voice on Lakeboat “A riveting theatrical experience that illuminates the heart of darkness.” —Jack Kroll of Newsweek on Edmond