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The Films of Ingmar Bergman

The Films of Ingmar Bergman

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  • Date Published: December 2003
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521389778

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  • This volume provides a concise overview of the career of one of the modern masters of world cinema. Jesse Kalin defines Bergman's conception of the human condition as a struggle to find meaning in life as it is played out. For Bergman, meaning is achieved independently of any moral absolute and is the result of a process of self-examination. Six existential themes are explored repeatedly in Bergman's films: judgment, abandonment, suffering, shame, a visionary picture, and above all, turning toward or away from others. Kalin examines how Bergman examines these themes cinematically, through close analysis of eight films: well known favorites such as Wild Strawberries, The Seventh Seal, Smiles of a Summer Night, and Fanny and Alexander; and important but lesser known works, such as Naked Night, Shame, Cries and Whispers, and Scenes from a Marriage.

    • Accessible to students, of interest to scholars
    • Discussions of key images that occur throughout Bergman's films
    • Philosophical approach to films
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    • Date Published: December 2003
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521389778
    • length: 268 pages
    • dimensions: 229 x 152 x 15 mm
    • weight: 0.43kg
    • contains: 23 b/w illus.
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    1. Introduction: The geography of the soul
    Part I. The Films of the Fifties:
    2. The primal seen: The Clowns' Evening
    3. The journey: The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries
    4. The great dance: Smiles of a Summer Night
    Part II: Second Thoughts:
    5. A dream play: Shame
    6. The illiterates: Cries and Whispers, Scenes from a Marriage, and the Films of the 1970s
    Part III: A Final Look:
    7. The little world: Fanny and Alexander
    Afterwards: Biographical note
    Bergman and existentialism: a brief comment
    A note on Woody Allen
    Appendix.

  • Author

    Jesse Kalin, Vassar College, New York

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