Geoffrey Macnab

Ingmar Bergman (eBook, PDF)

The Life and Films of the Last Great European Director

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857713575
• Artikelnr.: 39140964

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey Macnab is a film journalist and critic for The Independent, The Guardian and Screen International. He is based in London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Prologue on international reaction to Bergman's death Introduction
Bergman's influence on filmmakers working today Chapter One A Biographical
Portrait Chapter Two European Cinema of the 1940s Chapter Three Early Work,
1944-1950 Chapter Four 1953-1960 Chapter Five Bergman's actresses Chapter
Six Religious Faith: The Trilogy Chapter Seven A Man of the Theatre Chapter
Eight The Magus Chapter Nine Bergman and Business Chapter Nine Prospero in
Retreat Conclusion Bergman today Notes Bibliography Index