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Long held to be among the world’s greatest filmmakers, Ingmar Bergman shaped international art cinema from the 1950s to the 1980s. Among his many works, Persona is often considered to be his masterpiece and is often described as one of the central works of Modernism. Bergman himself claimed that this film ‘touched wordless secrets only the cinema can discover’. The essays collected in this volume, and published for the first time, use a variety of methodologies to explore topics such as acting technique, genre, and dramaturgy. It also includes translations of Bergman’s early writings that have never before been available in English, as well as an updated filmography and bibliography that cover the filmmaker’s most recent work.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #144932 in Books
• Published on: 1999-09-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

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At last - a book bringing together important articles (many previously unpublished) on a key film of the century... 'Persona' is hardly a picnic and the ideas in this book are hardly Noddy, but they're refreshingly easily expressed and avoid the dogmatism that makes most film criticism unpalatable. The book aims to make the 1960's movie accessible or at least decipherable to a new generation of scholars and enthusiasts, putting it in the light of recent interests like feminism, without taking it out of its Swedish and international context. Okay - so it's a bit obscure in parts, but you wouldn't be reasding this if you weren't already intrigued, right? It's not gonna win any new converts, but I don't really think it's trying to.