The Demons of Modernity : : Ingmar Bergman and European Cinema / / John Orr.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Orr, John,
• MitwirkendeR: Koskinen, Maaret,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (140 p.)

Ingmar Bergman’s films had a very broad and rich relationship with the rest of European cinema, contrary to the myth that Bergman was a peripheral figure, culturally and aesthetically isolated from the rest of Europe. This book contends that he should be put at the very center of European film history by chronologically comparing Bergman’s relationship to key European directors such as Carl Theodor Dreyer, Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Andrei Tarkovsky, and also looks at Bergman’s critical relationship to key movements in film history such as the French New Wave. In so doing, it demonstrates how Ingmar Bergman’s films illustrate the demonic struggle in modernity between faith and secularity through “his intense preoccupation with the malaise of intimacy.”

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- CHAPTER ONE Ingmar Bergman: The Demons of Modernity -- CHAPTER TWO The Shadow of Transcendence: Dreyer–Bergman–Tarkovsky -- CHAPTER THREE Lure of the Archipelago: Bergman–Godard–New Wave -- CHAPTER FOUR Existential Stoicism: Bergman–Antonioni -- Afterword and Acknowledgements -- Filmography -- Selected Bibliography -- Index