Title: Ingmar Bergman's The silence : pictures in the typewriter, writings on the screen /
Authors: Koskinen, Maaret.
Publisher: University of Washington Press ; Museum Tusculanum Press,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Bergman, Ingmar, Criticism and interpretation.; Tystnaden (Motion picture)
Contents: Introduction : "Whatever happened to Ingmar Bergman?" -- Backdrops and contexts. National cinema, art film, and the auteur -- The auteur contextualized -- Antonioni : "that perpetual foil to Bergman" -- Art versus business -- The auteur as star -- The art of reinventing authorship -- Censorship issues : sex, women, and Hollywood -- The silence at home : debate and controversy -- The silence abroad : "the Bergman ballyhoo era" -- Gender issues : now what about all these women? -- Director and actress : nudity and power relations -- Works in progress : intermedial variations. In the beginning was (the fear of) the word : notebooks -- From word to sound-- To music and painting -- In between words and images : manuscripts and screenplays -- Edits : too many words -- Sex and the city : the eroticism of language -- The published screenplay : senses and synesthetics -- Excursion : flash forward to a writer let loose -- The finished film. Framing the senses -- Sounds and linguistic voids -- Beginnings : windows and sights -- Paintings and tableaux vivants -- The phenomenology of vision : hotel excursions -- The eroticism of vision : mirrors and doorways -- The close-up : the Bergman icon -- Conclusion.