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Ingmar Bergman's The Silence - Pictures in the Typewriter, Writings on the Screen (Hardcover)
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Ingmar Bergman's The Silence - Pictures in the Typewriter, Writings on the Screen (Hardcover)
Series: Nordic Film Classics
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Ingmar Bergman's 1963 film The Silence was made at a point in his
career when his stature as one of the great art-film directors
allowed him to push beyond the boundaries of what was acceptable to
censorship boards in Sweden and the United States. The film's
depiction of sexuality was, as Judith Crist wrote at the time in
the New York Herald-Tribune, "not for the prudish." Yet Bergman's
notebooks and screenplays reveal his tendency for self-censorship,
both to dampen the literary quality of his screenwriting and to
alter portions of the script that Bergman ultimately deemed too
provocative. Maaret Koskinen, a professor of cinema studies and
film critic for Sweden's largest national daily newspaper, was the
first scholar given access to Bergman's private papers during the
last years of his life. Bergman's notebooks reveal the difficulties
he experienced in writing for the medium of moving images and his
meditations on the relationship (or its lack) between moving images
and the spoken or written word. Koskinen's attention to this
intermedial framework is anchored in a close reading of the film,
focusing on the many-faceted relationships between images and
dialogue, music, sound, and silence. The Silence offers filmgoers
an entryway into the cinematic, cultural, and sociopolitical issues
of its time, but remains a classic - rich enough for scrutiny from
a variety of perspectives and methodologies. Koskinen draws a
picture of Bergman that challenges the traditional view of him as
an auteur, revealing his attempts to overcome his own image as a
creator of serious art films by making his work relevant to a new
generation of filmgoers. Her exploration of the film touches on
issues of censorship and the cinema of small nations, while
shedding new light on the shifting views of Bergman and auteurist
film, high art, and popular culture.
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