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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... becomes the way we had expected it , " the theme of this Strindberg drama was verbalized . In his first diary note for Mourning Becomes Electra , the trilogy based on Aeschylus ' Oresteia , Eugene O'Neill ( 3 ) asks himself : " Is it ...
... become a uni- versal icon for global destruction . By projecting this cloud Bergman could instantly show how Renée's " now " had become our now , how two hundred years later her statement has become even more urgent than when it ...
... becomes a second externally invisible observer . Max does not say that he can see a head behind the hedge , a more natural noun , because it is the ears , the eavesdropping , that is of paramount importance . Suggestiveness prevails ...