Ingmar Bergman
By: Robin Wood ; edited by Barry Keith Grant
Contributors: Grant, Barry Keith, 1947-
Edition: New ed.
Series: Contemporary approaches to film and media series
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Detroit, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780814333600; 9780814338063
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Description: "At a time when few reviewers and critics were taking the study of film seriously, Robin Wood released a careful and thoroughly cinematic commentary on Ingmar Bergman's films that demonstrated the potential of film analysis in a nascent scholarly field. The original Ingmar Bergman influenced a generation of film scholars and cineastes after its publication in 1969 and remains one of the most important volumes on the director. This new edition of Ingmar Bergman, edited by film scholar Barry Keith Grant, contains all of Wood's original text plus four later pieces on the director by Wood that were intended for a new volume that was not completed before Wood's death in 2010. In analyzing a selection of Bergman's films, Wood makes a compelling case for the logic of the filmmaker's development while still respecting and indicating the distinctiveness of his individual films. Wood's emphasis on questions of value (What makes a work important? How does it address our lives?) informed his entire career and serve as the basis for many of these chapters. In the added material for this new edition, Wood considers three important films Bergman made after the book was first published-Cries and Whispers, Fanny and Alexander, and From the Life of the Marionettes-and also includes significant reassessment of Persona. These pieces provocatively suggest the more political directions Wood might have taken had he been able to produce Ingmar Bergman Revisited, as he had planned to do before his death. In its day, Ingmar Bergman was one of the most important volumes on the Swedish director published in English, and it remains compelling today despite the multitude of books to appear on the director since. Film scholars and fans of Bergman's work will enjoy this updated volume." -- Publisher's description.

"In 1969, Robin Wood released a careful and thoroughly cinematic commentary on Ingmar Bergman's films that demonstrated the potential of film analysis and influenced a generation of film scholars and cineastes. This new edition of Ingmar Bergman, edited by Barry Keith Grant, contains all of Wood's original text plus four previously unpublished pieces on the director that were intended for a new volume that was not completed before Wood's death in 2010. While this volume is not designed to be an exhaustive study of every Bergman film, it showcases Wood's distinctive viewpoint and keeps his influential work at the forefront for today's film scholars and enthusiasts."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Filmography: p.     .
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Journeys : For att inte tala om alla dessa kvinnor; title: Parents and victims : Frenzy, Prison, Port of call; title: Innocence and experience : Summer interlude, Summer with Monika, Waiting women; title: Broken dreams : Sawdust and tinsel, Journey into autumn; title: Lessons in love : A lesson in love, Smiles of a summer night, Wild strawberries; title: Doubts and fears : The seventh seal, The face, The devil's eye; title: The Isaksson films : So close to life, The virgin spring; title: The trilogy : Through a glass darkly, Winter light, The silence; title: Intermezzo : Now about these women; title: The world without, the world within : Persona, Hour of the wolf, Shame; title: Moments of release : Cries and whispers (1973); title: Call me Ishmael : Fanny and Alexander (1983); title: Persona revisited (1994); title: Bergman, Sweden, and  me.