Ingmar Bergman's Face to Face

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

AvMichael Tapper

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-10-03
Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt384 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor216
FörlagColumbia University Press
ISBN9780231176538

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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

Ingmar Bergman's Face to Face seems to be one of those films that dwell in the shadows, as if patiently waiting to be found by a discerning eye. Enter Swedish critic and scholar Michael Tapper, who in throwing his sharp torchlight virtually revives this film, which for so long has remained a blind spot neglected by critics and scholarship alike. Most of all Tapper succeeds in delineating how Face to Face lends itself to a rich contextualization of the sort not generally found in mainstream Bergman studies, be it the sexual revolution of the 1970s, second-wave feminism, the growing importance of television as producer of feature film, or the (in)famous 'primal scream' therapy promoted by Henry Janov. Face to Face superbly mirrors the times in which it was made, yet is saturated with issues that remain relevant today. An added feature of this book is that it includes never before published material, for instance the director's diaries in the Ingmar Bergman Foundation Archive, which would otherwise not have seen the light of day. -- Maaret Koskinen, Stockholm University

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