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The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography Paperback - 2007

by Ingmar Bergman

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Ingmar Bergman, creator of such films as Wild Strawberries, Scenes from a Marriage and Fanny and Alexander turns his perceptive filmmaker's eye on himself for a revealing portrait of his life and obsessions. 16 pages of photos.

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"When a film is not a document, it is a dream. . . . At the editing table, when I run the strip of film through, frame by frame, I still feel that dizzy sense of magic of my childhood." Bergman, who has conveyed this heady sense of wonder and vision to moviegoers for decades, traces his lifelong love affair with film in his breathtakingly visual autobiography, The Magic Lantern.

More grand mosaic than linear account, Bergman's vignettes trace his life from a rural Swedish childhood through his work in theater to Hollywood's golden age, and a tumultuous romantic history that includes five wives and more than a few mistresses. Throughout, Bergman recounts his life in a series of deeply personal flashbacks that document some of the most important moments in twentieth-century filmmaking as well as the private obsessions of the man behind them. Ambitious in scope yet sensitively wrought, The Magic Lantern is a window to the mind of one of our era's great geniuses.

"[Bergman] has found a way to show the soul's landscape . . . . Many gripping revelations."-New York Times Book Review

"Joan Tate's translation of this book has delicacy and true pitch . . . The Magic Lantern is as personal and penetrating as a Bergman film, wry, shadowy, austere."-New Republic

"[Bergman] keeps returning to his past, reassessing it, distilling its meaning, offering it to his audiences in dazzling new shapes."-New York Times

"What Bergman does relate, particularly his tangled relationships with his parents, is not only illuminating but quite moving. No 'tell-all' book this one, but revealing in ways that much longer and allegedly 'franker' books are not."-Library Journal

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  • Title The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography
  • Author Ingmar Bergman
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New Ed
  • Pages 314
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
  • Publication date 2007-05-15
  • Features Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780226043821 / 0226043827
  • Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.94 x 6.58 x 0.7 in (22.71 x 16.71 x 1.78 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Bergman, Ingmar, Motion picture producers and directors -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2007003189
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Ingmar Bergman is a Swedish filmmaker who has written and directed over fifty films. He is the recipient of three Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film for The Virgin Spring, Through a Glass Darkly, and Fanny and Alexander.

Joan Tate (1922-2000) was a prolific translator of Swedish works into English.

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