Ingmar Bergman's Face to Face (eBook)

Michael Tapper (Autor)

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2017
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-85121-3 (ISBN)

Infos

The 1976 premiere of Face to Face came at the height of director-screenwriter Ingmar Bergman's career, yet today Face to Face is a largely overlooked and dismissed work. This book tells the story of its rise and fall and presents a new portrait of Bergman as a political artist exploring a new medium with huge public impact: television.

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The 1976 premiere of Face to Face came at the height of director-screenwriter Ingmar Bergman's career. Prestigious awards and critical acclaim had made him into a leading name in European art cinema, yet today Face to Face is a largely overlooked and dismissed work.This book tells the story of its rise and fall. It presents a new portrait of Bergman as a political artist exploring a new medium with huge public impact: television. Inspired by Henrik Ibsen, feminism, and alternative psychotherapy, he made a series of portraits of the modern bourgeois family focusing on the plight of women; Face to Face followed in the tracks of The Lie (1970) and Scenes from a Marriage (1973). By his workbooks, engagement planners, and other archival material, we can trace his investigation into the heart of repressive family structures to eventually glimpse a way out. This volume culminates in an extensive study of the two-year process from the first outlines of the screenplay to the reception and aftermath of Face to Face. It thus offers a unique insight into Bergman's world, his ideas and artistry during a turbulent time in cinema history.

Autor

Michael Tapper is an affiliated researcher in film studies at Lund University, Sweden, and a film critic at the daily papers Sydsvenska Dagbladet and Helsingborgs Dagblad. His previous books include Swedish Cops: From Sjöwall and Wahlöö to Stieg Larsson (2014) and he has contributed to several anthologies and journals.

Inhalt

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Prelude: The 1960sUnder FireCrisisPart II. Bergman Goes TVOut of the Ivory TowerMass-Market BergmanThe TV Medium and Bergman’s StylePart III. Bergman’s ModernismAttack of Second-Wave FeminismThe Strindberg-Ibsen-Bergman ConnectionPersona: War on IdealismThe Making of Ingmar BergmanOne Man, Four WomenPart IV. The Djursholm Trilogy Plus OneThe Lie: A Tragi-Comedy of BanalityScenes from a MarriageLife in the Beige LaneCries and Whispers: Into the Belly of the Idealism BeastPart V. Face to FaceTo the Orgasm and Beyond: Ingmar Bergman and the Sexual RevolutionArthur Janov Conquers Sweden – and BergmanWorkbook No. 29, Part I: Everything is a DreamTraum and TraumaWorkbook No. 29, Part II: Jenny the PsychiatristWorkbook No. 29, Part III: The Primal ScreamThe ScreenplayThe ProductionThe TV SeriesThe FilmOverture to the ReleaseReceptionA Success and a FailureCoda: The End of Art?ReferencesIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.10.2017
• Zusatzinfo: <B>B&W Photos: </B>16,
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 0-231-85121-9 / 0231851219
• ISBN-13: 978-0-231-85121-3 / 9780231851213