Gender and Representation in the Films of Ingmar Bergman

This book covers the whole of Bergman's production but concentrates in particular on close analyses of five of his major films: Smiles of a Summer Night The Seventh Seal The Silence Persona and Cries and Whispers. In addition to bringing post-modernist theoretical strategies to bear on the films it offers a clear current pluralist feminist perspective: Blackwell demonstrates that Bergman is an extremely complex and complicated artist who produces art equally complicated art that embraces and validates feminist concerns something that earlier feminist critics of his work failed to perceive.Professor MARILYN JOHNS BLACKWELL teaches in the Department of Scandinavian at Ohio State University.