Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 249 p. 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...
I.B.Tauris, 2009. - 242 p. Ingmar Bergman was the last and arguably the greatest of the old-style European auteurs and his influence across all areas of contemporary cinema has continued to be considerable since his death in July 2007. Drawing on interviews with collaborators and original research, this book puts Bergman's career into the context of his life and offers a new...
Cambridge University Press, 2000. - 191 p. 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 described as one of the central works of modernism. Bergman himself claimed that this film "touched wordless secrets only the...
Amsterdam University Press, 2005. - 1150 p. The films of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman are renowned for their largely spare and stark aesthetic, an existential framework, and plots driven by a fascination with death and the moral torments of the human soul. Birgitta Steene offers here in Ingmar Bergman: A Reference Guide an essential and unparalleled resource on the life and...
The present book is not an examination of how Bergman's stage, screen and radio productions have come into being, of the director's work in the rehearsal room, the sound studio, the cutting room. I! is rather an examination of the results of this work. After all, Bergman's profile as a director is determined first and foremost by the completed productions, irrespective of how...
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