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Ingmar Bergman's The Silence. Pictures in the Typewriter, Writings on the Screen. Af Maaret Koskinen. 208 sider, 14 x 19 cm. Ill: 14 fotos. Pris kr 175,00. Museum Tusculanums Forlag. Udgivet 2010. (Nordic Film Classics)

En bog om den svenske filminstruktør Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) og hans film Stilheden (Tystnaden, 1963). Ingmar Bergmans film Tystnaden (eng. The Silence) er en ægte klassiker. Filmen giver et spændende indblik i samtidens filmiske, kulturelle og sociopolitiske temaer.
Tystnaden blev skabt på et tidspunkt i Bergmans karriere, hvor hans status som én af de største kunstfilminstruktører tillod ham at rykke grænserne for hvad der var acceptabelt i både Sverige og USA. Trods det afslører Bergmans notesbøger og manuskripter at han havde tendens til selvcensur der bl.a. bestod i at han nedtonede den litterære kvalitet i dele af sine manuskripter, og ændrede dele som han fandt for provokerende.
Maaret Koskinen, der som den første forsker har fået adgang til Bergmans private papirer fra den sidste periode af hans liv, tegner i bogen et billede af Bergman som udfordrer det traditionelle syn på ham som auteur. Koskinen afdækker Bergmans forsøg på at overgå sit eget image som skaber af seriøs filmkunst og samtidig gøre sit arbejde relevant for en ny generation.
Bogen behandler spørgsmål som censur og film i små nationer, og belyser de skiftende syn på Bergman, auteurfilm, finkultur og populærkultur.
"The Silence remains a classic and, as such, is one of the important European modernist art films of the 1960s, rich enough for scrutiny from af variety of perspectives, methodologies, and interpretative matrixes. That it has mainly been approached from an auteurist perspective - that is, framed and contextualized by the themes and style of Bergman's oeuvre as a whole - is only natural, given that it was written and produced at a time when auteurism became theory and even, in certain countries (not least Sweden), a production policy. No doubt this approach has proved fruitful. [...] However, the very dominance of the traditional auteurist approach, and in particular the notion of Ingmar Bergman as perhaps the most quintessential among European art film directors, has over time contributed quite effectively to hiding or suppressing other views, specifically larger cultural concerns and contexts, which have tended to be bypassed or flatly ignored. These larger concerns need to be included when dealing with such seemingly already-well-known entities as 'Bergman.' The Silence offers an excellent entry into the cinematic, cultural, and sociopolitical issues of its time, in this case, the institution of censorship and certain nation states' relationships to their own film culture"(fra Conclusion).
Maaret Koskinen er professor i filmvidenskab ved Stockholms Universitet. Hun har tidligere skrevet adskillige bøger om Ingmar Bergman.

UDDRAG AF INDHOLD: Introduction: "Whatever Happened to Ingmar Bergman?" Backdrops and Contexts. National Cinema, Art Film, and the Auteur. Censorship Issues: Sex, Women, and Hollywood. Works in Progress: Intermedial Variations. In the Beginning Was (the Fear of) the Word: Notebooks. In Between Words and Images: Manuscripts and Screenplays. The Finished Film. Framing the Senses.
Conclusion. Production Notes. Filmography. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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