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Ingmar Bergman: Magician and Prophet
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Ingmar Bergman: Magician and Prophet Hardback - 1999

by Marc Gervais

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Ingmar Bergman has long been revered as a master craftsman of the cinema, a film poet who has created works that are intensely revealing of himself while resonating mysteriously and powerfully with his audience. In Ingmar Bergman Marc Gervais explores what has largely been taken for granted - how Bergman achieves this cinematic magic through his specific choices in the use of film language and the texturing and structuring of his images, sounds, and rhythms.

Gervais shows also how Bergman's work resonates in a much broader sphere than the personal. His films, which are without equal in the history of cinema in quality, consistency, and relevance, are crucial moments in an ongoing conversation with western culture in its frenetic evolution since World War II.

Gervais situates Bergman within the tensions of modernism and the western tradition that have manifested themselves in the twentieth century from existentialism, through deconstruction, and into postmodernism. Bergman's films are experienced as incarnations, meditations, explorations, and aesthetic objects that reflect, comment on, conflict with, or embrace the movements that produced them.

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  • Title Ingmar Bergman: Magician and Prophet
  • Author Marc Gervais
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition; F
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, QC
  • Publication date 1999-10
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780773518438 / 0773518436
  • Weight 2.2 lbs (1.00 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.1 x 7.8 x 1 in (25.65 x 19.81 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1950-1999
    • Cultural Region: Scandinavian
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Bergman, Ingmar - Criticism and
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00455214
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Choice, 10/01/2000, Page 338

About the author

Marc Gervais is professor of film and culture in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University. Long involved professionally in various aspects of the media, he is the author of the first book on Pier-Paolo Pasolini.

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