Ingmar Bergman's Persona / edited by Lloyd Michaels.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Michaels, Lloyd, editor.

Series:

Cambridge film handbooks series.

Cambridge University Press film handbooks series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Persona (Motion picture).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 191 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 often described as one of the central works of Modernism. Bergman himself claimed that this film 'touched wordless secrets only the cinema can discover'. The essays collected in this volume, and published for the first time, use a variety of methodologies to explore topics such as acting technique, genre, and dramaturgy. It also includes translations of Bergman's early writings that have never before been available in English, as well as an updated filmography and bibliography that cover the filmmaker's most recent work.

Contents:

Bergman and the necessary illusion: an introduction to Persona / Lloyd Michaels

Berman's Persona through a native mindscape / Birgitta Steene

Persona and the 1960s art cinema / Wheeler Winston Dixon

Bergman's Persona / Susan Sontag

Scenes from the class struggle in Sweden: Persona as Brechtian melodrama / Christopher Orr

Persona and the seduction of performance / Steve Vineberg

Feminist theory and the performance of lesbian desire in Persona / Gwendolyn Audrey Foster.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

0-511-82559-5

0-511-62431-X