Ingmar Bergman: Magician and Prophet (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780773518438)

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.

Author: Marc Gervais
ISBN-10: 0773518436
ISBN-13: 9780773518438
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/15/1999
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.20lbs
Size: 10.10h x 7.80w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2000 pg. 338