POETRY & LITERATURE
Harry Ransom Lecture: David Mamet
February 5, 2009
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In the second Harry Ransom Lecture, playwright, writer, and film director David Mamet joins The University of Texas at Austin President William Powers Jr. for a conversation about The Spanish Prisoner (1997) and a screening of the film. David Mamet is the author of the plays Romance, Boston Marriage, Oleanna, Glengarry Glen Ross (1984 Pulitzer Prize), American Buffalo, The Old Neighborhood, A Life in the Theatre, Speed-the-Plow, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Reunion and The Cryptogram (1995 Obie Award), and November. His films include The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Verdict, The Untouchables, House of Games (writer/director), Oleanna (writer/director), Homicide (writer/director), The Spanish Prisoner (writer/director), Hoffa, The Edge, Wag the Dog, The Winslow Boy (writer/director), Hannibal, State and Main (writer/director), and Heist (writer/director). His most recent books include the acting books, True and False and Three Uses of the Knife, and Bambi vs. Godzilla, On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business. His film Redbelt premiered in spring 2008.
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