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The Art of Crime
The Art of Crime, This collection of 15 original essays, assembled by renowned Mamet and Pinter scholar Leslie Kane, examines the pervasiveness of crime and criminality in the plays and screenplays of two of the most influential contemporary dramatists. The contributors ge, The Art of Crime has a rating of 4 stars
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  • The Art of Crime
  • Written by author Leslie Kane
  • Published by Taylor & Francis, Inc., May 2004
  • This collection of 15 original essays, assembled by renowned Mamet and Pinter scholar Leslie Kane, examines the pervasiveness of crime and criminality in the plays and screenplays of two of the most influential contemporary dramatists. The contributors ge
  • This collection of 15 original essays, assembled by renowned Mamet and Pinter scholar Leslie Kane, examines the pervasiveness of crime and criminality in the plays and screenplays of two of the most influential contemporary dramatists.
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Acknowledgment
Introduction 1
1 A poetics for thugs 15
2 "You'll never be without a police siren" : Pinter and the subject of law 31
3 Harold Pinter's "before the law" 55
4 Harold Pinter's Ashes to ashes : the criminality of indifference and the failure of empathy 71
5 Comedy and crime : Pinter's primal power 89
6 Lost in the funhouse : crime and spectacle in Pinter's screenplay of Kafka's The trial 105
7 Lie detectors : Pinter/Mamet and the Victorian concept of crime 119
8 Gradations of criminality in the plays of David Mamet 137
9 Melville's The confidence man and his descendants in David Mamet's work 151
10 Fantasy crimes/fictional lives : Lakeboat 161
11 David Mamet's House of games and the allegory of performance 175
12 More uses of the knife as signifier in The cryptogram, The old religion, and The edge 189
13 A theater of the self : Mamet's The edge as a Figura of otherness 203
14 Suckered again : the perfect patsy and The Spanish prisoner 217
Contributors 233
Index 237


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