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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... Ingrid Thulin apparently was not included at this early stage . The Fifth Act carries the following epigraph from Ibsen's Peer Gynt : PEER Hence with thee , scarecrow ! Hop it , man ! I will not die ! I must reach land ! S.P. Where ...
... Ingrid Thulin in The Communicants . " Unwilling to interpret his own work , Bergman here evasively argues that the use of The Communicants as an intertext was primarily a little game for his own private entertainment , to be regarded as ...
... ( Ingrid Thulin ) in The Face . Cohen ( 462 ) sees a connection between Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf , staged by Bergman in 1963 , and Bergman's own television serial Scenes from a Marriage , broadcast ten years later . Also ...