The Spanish Prisoner

by Yannis Tzioumakis

Despite more than a passing nod to such crowdpleasing classics as Hitchcock's North by Northwest, playwright-turned-independent filmmaker David Mamet's The Spanish Prisoner is a particularly idiosyncratic film that betrays its origin outside the Hollywood mainstream. Featuring a convoluted narrative, an excessive, often anti-classical, visual style, and belonging to the generic category of the'con game film' which often challenges the spectator's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748633693
• ISBN13: 9780748633692
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher