Bergman's Muses: Æsthetic Versatility in Film, Theatre, Television and RadioBergman is a most versatile director who has devoted himself to several muses in a variety of media. Apart from being a writer of plays and screenplays, he has over the past fifty years directed about a hundred stage performances, fifty films, and many works for radio and television. During this time, all the production equipment used have undergone significant changes (allowing, just for instance, a more varied and subtle use of light and sound). But by his own admission, Bergman's texts have often lacked a clear orientation toward a specific medium. This book focuses on Bergman's way of tackling the problems inherent in each art form he has dealt with, giving a penetrating picture of his craftsmanship and the intimate relationship between his work on stage and in film, as well as the possibilities and limitations of the various forms. With the varied media at his disposal, Bergman is internationally the most versatile author-cum-director presently at work, well aware of what each medium can and cannot do and, most importantly, eager to test its borders. The book addresses itself not only to Bergman fans but also to all those interested in the aesthetic problems related to different presentational forms. |
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... role - actor / actress appears . In the transcribed television / film sections , the figures indicate shots . The following abbreviations are used both there and in the quotations from the dramatists ' stage directions ( where left and ...
... role - playing on the stage has its counterpart in the more disguised role - playing in the auditorium . While Alexander here appears on the stage , he later appears together with the director in the auditorium of the same theater ; now ...
... role - playing , face and mask . In The Silence , it is again Bach's music , transmitted by a transistor radio , that sooth- ingly relieves Ester , the translator , from her logocentricity , and transcends the language barrier between ...
... role in the film , especially when compared with the photograph of her son that Elisabet schizophrenically tears in two . With his seven extrinsic and a great number of intrinsic media at his disposal , Bergman is internationally ...
... role of Regine's father , persuades the naive Pastor Manders that it is Manders ' carelessness that has caused the fire — whereas it is obviously Engstrand himself who has done so . Engstrand promises to keep the reason for the fire ...