ISBN10: 0773518436, ISBN13: 9780773518438, [publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal] Hardcover Hardcover. 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 also shows 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. An exploration of the power and mystery of Ingmar Bergman's cinema and its relevance in the evolution of western culture in the second half of the twentieth century. Shipping may be from our ...
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ISBN10: 0773518436, ISBN13: 9780773518438, [publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press] Hardcover Good condition. This is the average used book, that has all pages or leaves present, but may include writing. Book may be ex-library with stamps and stickers. 2
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