Ingmar Bergman : a reference guide / Birgitta Steene.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steene, Birgitta, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bergman, Ingmar, 1918-2007--Encyclopedias.

Bergman, Ingmar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1150 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 <i>Ingmar Bergman: A Reference Guide</i> an essential and unparalleled resource on the life and work of Bergman. Plumbing the depths of these trademark Bergman themes, Steene traces as well the indelible mark he left on world cinema through his other cinematographic work and writings.Over the decades, Bergman's stature and image have evolved in fascinating ways - an iconoclast of the 1950s, a bourgeois traditionalist of the 1960s, and an icon in the 1980s. This exhaustive compendium considers each phase of his career, exploring his deep and vast oeuvre in all its controversy and complexity, and analyzes his intriguing and unique motifs such as his efforts to expose dead conventions and his portrayals of Woman as the archetype of humanity. As well as providing a detailed account of Bergman's life and chronicling his career as a filmmaker and theater director, including his work for television, Steene offers transcripts of some of the numerous interviews and conversations she conducted with Bergman. Writings by and about Bergman and a detailed chronological survey of his film and theatrical work completes this eminently readable and thoroughly researched volume. A wide-ranging and groundbreaking work of film history, <i>Ingmar Bergman</i> is the definitive reference for scholars of the Scandinavian master.

Contents:

Life and work

The writer

The filmmaker

Filmography

Ingmar Bergman and the media

Ingmar Bergman in the theatre

Theatre and media bibliography, 1940-2004

Bergman's theatre, opera, TV, and radio productions

Interviews with Ingmar Bergman

Works on Ingmar Bergman

Varia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Feb 2021).

ISBN:

9786611972356

9781281972354

1281972355

9789048508815

9048508819

9781423746249

1423746244

OCLC:

666962964