Plays, Movies, and Critics

"An engrossing mix of interviews and essays which explore from multiple perspectives dilemmas of spectacle and politics in our time."--Ariel Dorfman, Duke University

List of contents

Introduction / Jody McAuliffe

The Rapture of the Athlete Assumed into Heaven / Don DeLillo

Reinventing American Theater / Robert Brustein

The Seagull: Art and Love, Love and Art / Richard Gilman

The Late Beginner: Bernard Shaw Becoming a Dramatist / Stanley Kauffmann

Fascist Discourse and Pirandellian Theater / Mary Ann Frese Witt

Shepard's Split / David Wyatt

Between L.A. and New York: An Interview with Roberta Levitow / Mame Hunt

Cinema and Theology / Andre Bazin

The Passion of St. Charles: Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets / Jim Hosney, Jacquelyn Wollman, and Jesse Ward Engdahl

The Church of the Desert: Reflections on The Sheltering Sky / Jody McAuliffe

What the Streets Mean: An Interview with Martin Scorsese / Anthony DeCurtis

An Interview with Stanley Kauffmann / Bert Cardullo

Afterword: The Critic as Humanist / Jonathan Kalb

Notes on Contributors

Index

About the author

Jody McAuliffe, ed.

Product details

• Authors: McAuliffe, Jody McAuliffe
• Assisted by: Jody McAuliffe (Editor), Jody McAuliffe (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.01.1994
• EAN: 9780822314189
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1418-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 229 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 490 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Fernsehen, TV, Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker