商业伦理与“美国优先”——马梅特的戏剧带给人们的警示
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摘要
美国戏剧家大卫马梅特早在上世纪70—90年代创作了一系列反映美国商界活动的戏剧,这些戏剧栩栩如生地再现了美国商界没有硝烟的战场上你死我活斗争的场面,淋漓尽致地揭穿了资本主义一切为了追逐利益,肆意践踏商业伦理的实质。这也是当今美国总统特朗普"美国优先"口号的最好注脚。今天再读马梅特的这些商业戏剧,不难发现其警示作用。
Early from the 1970s to the 1990s, David Mamet, an American playwright, wrote a series of commercial plays, vividly portraying the fierce fights between two sides in the American business world, and thoroughly disclosing the essence of the capitalists who, in order to seek self interests, could violate the rules of business ethics. They are also best footnotes for the slogan "America First" raised by Donald Trump, the 45 th American president. Therefore, it is not difficult for readers to detect the message of warning from those plays when we read them again today.
Early from the 1970s to the 1990s, David Mamet, an American playwright, wrote a series of commercial plays, vividly portraying the fierce fights between two sides in the American business world, and thoroughly disclosing the essence of the capitalists who, in order to seek self interests, could violate the rules of business ethics. They are also best footnotes for the slogan "America First" raised by Donald Trump, the 45 th American president. Therefore, it is not difficult for readers to detect the message of warning from those plays when we read them again today.
引文
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[3]MAMET D,ROSE C.On Theater,Politics and Tragedy[C]//KANE L.David Mamet in Conversation.Ann Arbor:University of Michigan Press,2001:163.
[4]BOON K A.Ethics and Capitalism in the Screenplays of David Mamet[J].Literature/Film Quarterly,2011,39(3):176.
[5]MAMET D.The Water Engine:An American Fable and Mr.Happiness[M].New York:Grove Press,Inc.,1978.
[6]CHRISTIANSEN R.“Engine”Runs well in Revival[J].Chicago Tribune,1985(5):6.
[7]CARROLL D.David Mamet[M].London:Macmillan Publishers Ltd.,1987:132.
[8]SCHLUETER J,FORSYTH E.America as Junkshop:The Business Ethic in David Mamet’s American Buffalo[J].Modern Drama,1983(26):492-500.
[9]WILSON E.A Phlegmatic American Buffalo[N].Wall Street Journal,1977-02-23.
[10]KANE L.The Art of Crime:The plays and Films of Harold Pinter and David Mamet[M].New York:Routledge,2004:4.