The demons of modernity : Ingmar Bergman and the European cinema / John Orr ; foreword, Maaret Koskinen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orr, John, 1943-2010.

Contributor:

Koskinen, Maaret.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Bergman, Ingmar.

Motion pictures--Europe--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (134 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, [New York] ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

IIngmar Bergman's films had a very broad and rich relationship with the rest of European cinema, contrary to the myth that Bergman was a peripheral figure, culturally and aesthetically isolated from the rest of Europe. This book contends that he should be put at the very center of European film history by chronologically comparing Bergman's relationship to key European directors such as Carl Theodor Dreyer, Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Andrei Tarkovsky, and also looks at Bergman's critical relationship to key movements in film history such as the French New Wave. In so doing, it demonstrates how Ingmar Bergman's films illustrate the demonic struggle in modernity between faith and secularity through “his intense preoccupation with the malaise of intimacy.”

Contents:

Half-title; Title; Imprint; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; Foreword; Chapter One: Ingmar Bergman - The Demons of Modernity; Chapter Two: The Shadow of Transcendence - Dreyer-Bergman-Tarkovsky; Chapter Three: Lure of the Archipelago - Bergman-Godard-New Wave; Chapter Four: Existential Stoicism - Bergman-Antonioni; Afterword and Acknowlegements; Filmography; Selected Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes filmography, bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781785332036

1785332031

9780857459794

0857459791

OCLC:

870946161