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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Mamet"”.
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Honor among thieves? Socio-economic theories of Thorstein Veblen in the plays of David Mamet
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Pigments of Imagination: An Actor's Journey of Creating the Character of Jack Lawson from David Mamet's Race
… character portrayal of Jack Lawson in David Mamet’s <em>Race.</em> Documentation of the process will include: an explanation of the acting technique and analysis used to create the backstory and portrayal of the character; insight into the background and beliefs of playwright, David Mamet; …
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The Playwright as Filmmaker: History, Theory and Practice
… playwright-filmmakers (Preston Sturges, David Mamet, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Neil LaBute), attempting to isolate those aspects of their practice which are attributable to their experience as writers working hi live theatre. Parallel to this, I attempt to develop a theoretical practice …
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Confining the Demos: Incarceration in Democratic Political Thought
<p>Is imprisonment democratic? On the one hand, incarceration is a space of democratic inequality. Disenfranchised from voting, left off juries, and restricted in speech, the prisoner is excluded from the democratic community. On the other hand, incarceration has a long association with democratic …
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Feminist Theory and Postwar American Drama
… Lillian Hellman, Sam Shepard, John Guare, David Mamet, and David Rabe) as well as some women playwrights who would not generally be placed there (Jane Bowles, Carson McCullers, Maria Irene Fornes, Joan Schenkar, the group Split Britches, and Wendy Kesselman).</p> <p>The chapter on feminist …
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A Portrayal of Gender and a Description of Gender Roles in Selected American Modern and Postmodern Plays.
… <em>Fences</em>, Wilson; <em>Oleanna</em>, Mamet; and <em>How I Learned to Drive</em>, Vogel.</p><p>Two of the study's research questions explored the types of gender roles and behaviors that the characters presented. Two questions focused on considering if the time period or the sex of the …
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Revision of the tribe Serrolecaniini Shinji (Pseudococcidae) with discussion on other "legless" mealybugs
… Tang, Paludicoccus Ferris, Parapaludicoccus Mamet, Peridiococcus Williams, Pseudantonina Green, and Sphaerococcus Maskell are not closely related to one another or to members of the tribe Serrolecaniini based on adult female morphology. These 10 genera and their type species were redescribed, …
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The Steppenwolf Scenario: Establishing the habitus of Chicago’s Off-Loop theatre community
This study focuses on the history, development, and structuring elements of Chicago’s Off-Loop theatre community. My research, grounded in Diana Taylor’s concept of scenarios and Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of habitus, takes a sociological lens to the historical antecedents and theatrical …