Ingmar Bergman's the Silence: Pictures in the Typewriter, Writings on the Screen

by Maaret Koskinen

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295989432
• ISBN13: 9780295989433
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 7.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher