The Films of Ingmar Bergman: Illusions of Light and Darkness

Palgrave MacMillan, London, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover (Photographic Boards). Good Condition (ex-library)/No Dust Jacket. At the end of each acknowledgements, introduction by author, notes, bibliography, filmography and index. Photographic laminated boards with white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. In this book the author traces the films of the Swedish film maker Ingmar Bergman. " ... his films have conveyed, thematically and stylistically, various elements of illusion, including dreams, fantasies, nightmare visions, destabilised identity and the cinema as mask. The Films of Ingmar Bergman explores these diverse elements in relation to broader concerns and perspectives, such as cultural and artistic influences on Bergman's creative output, the phenomena of Bergman as "art film" director and film reception and criticism at key points in history, including debates about modernism, post-modernism and emerging feminist discourses on gender and multiplicity." – from rear panel blurb. The book is an ex-library copy, and has the faults of same: – library sticker to the top left-hand corner of the front paste-down, library stamp to the text edges, library sticker to the lower edge of the front panel and doing number to the lower edge of the backstrip. The book itself shows no other damage. Full Number Line. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [4], 5 - 189, [1] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Film, Radio & Television; Film Criticism; ISBN: 0230007244. ISBN/EAN: 9780230007246. Inventory No: 0130457. . 9780230007246