Ingmar Bergman The Life and Films of the Last Great European Director 1st Edition by Geoffrey Macnab 1848850468 9781848850460

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ISBN 10: 1848850468 

ISBN 13: 9781848850460

Author: Geoffrey Macnab

Ingmar Bergman was the last and arguably the greatest of the old-style European auteurs and his influence across all areas of contemporary cinema has continued to be considerable since his death in July 2007. Drawing on interviews with collaborators and original research, this book puts Bergman’s career into the context of his life and offers a new and revealing portrait of this great filmmaker. Geoffrey Macnab explores the often painfully autobiographical nature of his work, while also looking in detail at Bergman as a craftsman. He considers Bergman’s working relationship with his actors (especially the actresses he helped make into international stars), his passion for theatre, literature and classical music and his obsession with death and cruelty. The book traces his traumatic childhood, asking how his experiences growing up as the son of a strict Lutheran pastor fed into his later writing and filmmaking. It also looks at his political life, chronicling his teenage flirtation with Nazism, his bitter spat in the mid-70s with the Swedish authorities over his tax affairs and his often vexed relationship with his fellow Swedes. Geoffrey Macnab also considers how Bergman’s work was financed and distributed, his relationship with US agents and how close he came to working in Hollywood. ‘When I was 10 years old I received my first rattling film projector with its chimney and lamp which went round and round and round. I found it both mystifying and fascinating’ – Ingmar Bergman.

Table of contents:

1. A Portrait of the Young Filmmaker

2. Early Work

3. The ‘Middle Period’: 1953-60

4. Bergman and Hollywood

5. Tax and Politics

6. Bergman’s Actresses

7. Religious Faith – the Trilogy: Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, The Silence

8. Bergman the Polymath

9. The Magus

10. Prospero in Retreat: Back to Faro, Back to Childhood

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