Synopses & Reviews
Laura Hubner's book is among the first to analyze key films directed by Ingmar Bergman throughout his lifetime. Various kinds of "illusion" in Bergman's work (the mask, identity, dreams, and visions) are explored at both thematic and formal levels, positioned within wider concerns and perspectives such as cultural and artistic influences on Bergman's creative output, the phenomenon of Bergman as "art film" director, debates about modernism and postmodernism, and emerging feminist discourses on the multiplicity of identity.
Synopsis
Laura Hubner is one of the first critics to analyse the elements of 'illusion' in key films by Bergman and relate these to cultural and artistic influences on his creative output, the phenomenon of Bergman as 'art film' director, and debates about modernism, postmodernism and emerging feminist discourses on gender and multiplicity.
About the Author
LAURA HUBNER is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies at the University of Winchester.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements * Introduction * The Mask and Identity:
Summer Interlude's legacy * Female Defiance: Dreams of Another World in
Summer with Monika and the Early Films * Religion, Truth and Symbolism from
The Seventh Seal to
The Silence *
Persona: Cinema as Mask * Dreams, Fantasies and Nightmare Visions * Conclusion: Celebrating the Illusion * Notes * Bibliography * Filmography * Index