Ingmar Bergman : magician and prophet / Marc Gervais.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gervais, Marc, 1929-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bergman, Ingmar, 1918-2007--Criticism and interpretation.

Bergman, Ingmar.

Motion pictures--Biography.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

xiv, 257 p. : ill., ports. ; 26 cm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ingmar Bergman has long been revered as a master craftsman of the cinema, a film poet who has created works that are intensely revealing of himself while resonating mysteriously and powerfully with his audience. In Ingmar Bergman Marc Gervais explores what has largely been taken for granted - how Bergman achieves this cinematic magic through his specific choices in the use of film language and the texturing and structuring of his images, sounds, and rhythms.Gervais shows also how Bergman's work resonates in a much broader sphere than the personal. His films, which are without equal in the history of cinema in quality, consistency, and relevance, are crucial moments in an ongoing conversation with western culture in its frenetic evolution since World War II.Gervais situates Bergman within the tensions of modernism and the western tradition that have manifested themselves in the twentieth century from existentialism, through deconstruction, and into postmodernism. Bergman's films are experienced as incarnations, meditations, explorations, and aesthetic objects that reflect, comment on, conflict with, or embrace the movements that produced them.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Prelude: Summer Idyll

Prophet of Our Times

In the Beginning

Summer Tears, Summer Smiles

The Light in the Darkness

The Waning of the Light

Ingenting…or Almost

Just Doing my Job

The Little World?

Fade Into a Dream: A Conclusion?

Magician of the Cinema

Preamble to the Privileged Moment

Into the Trenches

The Bergman Magic

Some of That Other Work

Now About Television

Epilogue

Large Second Thoughts, or, It Did Not End in 1983

Film List

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85802-5

9786612858024

0-7735-6779-8

OCLC:

929121375