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Book Ingmar Bergman s Persona

Download or read book Ingmar Bergman s Persona written by Lloyd Michaels and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long held to be among the world's greatest filmmakers, Ingmar Bergman shaped international art cinema from the 1950s to the 1980s. Among his many works, Persona is often considered to be his masterpiece and is often described as one of the central works of Modernism. Bergman himself claimed that this film 'touched wordless secrets only the cinema can discover'. The essays collected in this volume, and published for the first time, use a variety of methodologies to explore topics such as acting technique, genre, and dramaturgy. It also includes translations of Bergman's early writings that have never before been available in English, as well as an updated filmography and bibliography that cover the filmmaker's most recent work.

Book Images

Download or read book Images written by Ingmar Bergman and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the success of his bestselling autobiography The Magic Lantern, the most influential film director of our time shares his wisdom and insig hts about himself and his cinematic work. Bergman's career spanned 40 years and produced over 50 films, many of which are considered classics. Over 200 photos.

Book Persona and Shame

Download or read book Persona and Shame written by Ingmar Bergman and published by Marion Boyars. This book was released on 1972 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Persona is a brooding study of personal disintegration, as Elizabeth, an actress recovering from a severe emotional breakdown, is cared for by Alma, her apparently well-balanced and extrovert nurse. Slowly the barriers that separate and define the two women crumble, and their relationship turns into a bewildering reversal and substitution of their respective identities. Shame pitches Jan and Eva, husband and wife and both professional musicians, into a world torn apart by civil war. Completely brutalised by the progressive breakdown of all civilised standards of behaviour, Jan and Eva's fate reflects how superficial culture, good order and morality are when set against the unconcern of an arbitrary and amoral universe.

Book Wordless Secrets

Download or read book Wordless Secrets written by Peter Ohlin and published by Studies in Nordic Literature and Film. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ingmar Bergman's film Persona (1966) is considered both one of his greatest masterpieces and his most enigmatic and abstract film. The highly influential film achieved global critical acclaim and has been the subject of numerous studies and interpretations. Wordless Secrets is a ground-breaking new study of Persona. It asserts that the essential Swedish context of the film has been overlooked by Bergman's international audience, which has mistakenly preferred to focus on the abstract and metaphysical aspects of Persona. By repatriating the discussion of Persona to its Swedish context, the book argues that: a) the film's setting is seen not just as a barren rocky shore, but as a landscape with people who live and work there and whose marginalization is not metaphysical, but immediate and political, as well as cultural; b) the profession of the nurse is not accidental, nor only symbolic: Alma's confusion may in part stem from the transformation of the nursing profession in the 1960s in Sweden; and c) the Holocaust photograph from the Warsaw ghetto is not just an image of total violence and cruelty, but also alludes to the Swedish guilt over neutrality in the face of Nazi war crimes. (Series: Studies in Nordic Literature and Film)

Book Ingmar Bergman s Face to Face

Download or read book Ingmar Bergman s Face to Face written by Michael Tapper and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1976 premiere of Face to Face came at the height of director-screenwriter Ingmar Bergman's career. Prestigious awards and critical acclaim had made him into a leading name in European art cinema, yet today Face to Face is a largely overlooked and dismissed work. This book tells the story of its rise and fall. It presents a new portrait of Bergman as a political artist exploring a new medium with huge public impact: television. Inspired by Henrik Ibsen, feminism, and alternative psychotherapy, he made a series of portraits of the modern bourgeois family focusing on the plight of women; Face to Face followed in the tracks of The Lie (1970) and Scenes from a Marriage (1973). By his workbooks, engagement planners, and other archival material, we can trace his investigation into the heart of repressive family structures to eventually glimpse a way out. This volume culminates in an extensive study of the two-year process from the first outlines of the screenplay to the reception and aftermath of Face to Face. It thus offers a unique insight into Bergman's world, his ideas and artistry during a turbulent time in cinema history.

Book Bergman On Bergman

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  • Author : Stig Bjorkman
  • Publisher : Da Capo Press
  • Release : 1993-03-21
  • ISBN : 9780306805202
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Bergman On Bergman written by Stig Bjorkman and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1993-03-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ingmar Bergman, an undisputed giant of modern cinematic art, here talks frankly and extensively about himself and his films. This discussion with the great Swedish director ranges from Bergman's childhood memories to his admiration for Strindberg to his relationship with the stars whom he made famous - Liv Ullmann, Harriet Andersson, Max von Sydow and Bibi Andersson, among others. Originally published in 1973, this work covers Bergman's career from his early films through the works: The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Persona, The Passion of Anna.

Book Unquiet

Download or read book Unquiet written by Linn Ullmann and published by Hamish Hamilton. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each summer of her childhood, the daughter visited her father at his remote Faro island home on the edge of the Baltic Sea. Years later, when she is grown with children of her own and he's in his eighties, they plan to write a book together. It will be about age and time, language and memory. She will ask the questions. He will answer them. The tape recorder will record. But old age has caught up with him in ways neither could have foreseen. And when the man is gone, only memories - both remembered and recorded - remain. Heart-breaking and spellbinding, Unquiet is a seamless blend of fiction and memoir in pursuit of elemental truths about how we live, love, lose and age.

Book Ingmar Bergman

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  • Author : Ingmar Bergman
  • Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9781578062188
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Ingmar Bergman written by Ingmar Bergman and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews with the famed director of Wild Strawberries, Scenes from a Marriage, The Seventh Seal, Saraband, and other films

Book The Passion of Ingmar Bergman

Download or read book The Passion of Ingmar Bergman written by Frank Gado and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acknowledged as one of the greatest filmmakers of this or any other time, Bergman has with few exceptions written his own screenplays--an uncommon practice in the film industry--and for this practice critics refer to him as a "literary" filmmaker: In this work, Gado examines virtually the entire range of Bergman's literary output. While treating the matter of the visual presentation of Bergman's films, Gado concentrates on story and narrative and their relationship to Bergman's personal history. Gado concludes that whatever the outward appearance of Bergman's works, they contain an elementary psychic fantasy that links them all, revealing an artist who hoped to be a dramatist, "the new Strindberg," and who saw the camera as an extension of his pen.

Book Ingmar Bergman

Download or read book Ingmar Bergman written by Marc Gervais and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1999 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ingmar Bergman has long been revered as a master craftsman of cinema, whose works are intensely revealing of himself while resonating powerfully with his audience. This book explores how Bergman achieves this cinematic magic through specific choices in the use of film language and the texturing and structuring of his images, sounds, and rhythms.

Book Ingmar Bergman

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  • Author : Erik Hedling
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2021-09-14
  • ISBN : 9198557726
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Ingmar Bergman written by Erik Hedling and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique collection focuses on the work of legendary Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. Written in the wake of the centenary of Bergman’s birth in 2018, the volume aims to combine new approaches to Bergman’s films and writings with more traditional analyses. Established themes such as Bergman’s interest in philosophy and psychology are addressed, but also less familiar topics, notably his relationship with Hollywood and his elaborate use of film music and autobiographical writing that characterised his later work. There are new analyses of aspects of Bergman’s most famous films, including Smiles of a Summer Night and Fanny and Alexander, but also insightful readings of lesser-known works, such as Saraband and Sawdust and Tinsel.

Book The Ingmar Bergman Archives

Download or read book The Ingmar Bergman Archives written by Erland Josephson and published by Taschen. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the archives at the Bergman Foundation comes an homage to the Swedish auteur and consummate explorer of the human condition. This re-edition brings back TASCHEN's award-winning publication, produced with many of Ingmar Bergman's close collaborators. Charting the director's entire working life in film, it features rare material and film...

Book Four Screenplays

Download or read book Four Screenplays written by Ingmar Bergman and published by Facsimiles-Garl. This book was released on 1985 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ingmar Bergman  Cinematic Philosopher

Download or read book Ingmar Bergman Cinematic Philosopher written by Irving Singer and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known for their repeating motifs and signature tropes, the films of Ingmar Bergman also contain extensive variation and development. In these reflections on Bergman's artistry and thought, Irving Singer discerns distinctive themes in Bergman's filmmaking, from first intimations in the early work to consummate resolutions in the later movies. Singer demonstrates that while Bergman's output was not philosophy on celluloid, it attains an expressive and purely aesthetic truthfulness that can be considered philosophical in a broader sense.

Book Masters of Cinema  Ingmar Bergman

Download or read book Masters of Cinema Ingmar Bergman written by Jacques Mandelbaum and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an in-depth analysis of the films of the Swedish director, discussing their plot, characters, dialogue, cinematography, major themes, and influence on the international community.

Book Ingmar Bergman

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  • Author : Stuart M. Kaminsky
  • Publisher : London ; New York : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1975
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Ingmar Bergman written by Stuart M. Kaminsky and published by London ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Verzameling eerder gepubliceerde analyses van het werk van de Zweedse cineast (geb. 1918), zowel door filmdeskundigen als door critici met een andere benadering

Book Cinema  Philosophy  Bergman

Download or read book Cinema Philosophy Bergman written by Paisley Livingston and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-07-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasingly popular idea that cinematic fictions can 'do' philosophy raises some difficult questions. Who is actually doing the philosophizing? Is it the philosophical commentator who reads general arguments or theories into the stories conveyed by a film? Could it be the film-maker, or a group of collaborating film-makers, who raise and try to answer philosophical questions with a film? Is there something about the experience of films that is especially suited to the stimulation of worthwhile philosophical reflections? In the first part of this book, Paisley Livingston surveys positions and arguments surrounding the cinema's philosophical value. He raises criticisms of bold theses in this area and defends a moderate view of film's possible contributions to philosophy. In the second part of the book he defends an intentionalist approach that focuses on the film-makers' philosophical background assumptions, sources, and aims. Livingston outlines intentionalist interpretative principles as well as an account of authorship in cinema. The third part of the book exemplifies this intentionalist approach with reference to the work of Ingmar Bergman. Livingston explores the connection between Bergman's work and the Swedish director's primary philosophical source-a treatise in philosophical psychology authored by the Finnish philosopher, Eino Kaila. Bergman proclaimed that reading this book was a tremendous philosophical experience for him and that he 'built on this ground'. With reference to materials in the newly created Ingmar Bergman archive, Livingston shows how Bergman took up Kaila's topics in his cinematic explorations of motivated irrationality, inauthenticity, and the problem of self-knowledge.