The Magic Lantern is of interest from an intermedial perspective in its forthright theatricalization or cinematization of the written text and the self-conscious performativity of its authorial voice. This arguably marked the second stage of his strictly literary career, the first being his plays for the stage in the 1940s. No ‘tell-all’ book this one, but revealing in ways that much longer and allegedly ‘franker’ books are not.Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) wrote his autobiography The Magic Lantern ( Laterna magica, 1987) 5 years after he had finished his film career with Fanny and Alexander, his last feature made for the cinema screen.

The Magic Lantern is as personal and penetrating as a Bergman film, wry, shadowy, austere.”–New Republic “ keeps returning to his past, reassessing it, distilling its meaning, offering it to his audiences in dazzling new shapes.”–New York Times “What Bergman does relate, particularly his tangled relationships with his parents, is not only illuminating but quite moving. Many gripping revelations.”–New York Times Book Review “Joan Tate’s translation of this book has delicacy and true pitch. “ has found a way to show the soul’s landscape. Ambitious in scope yet sensitively wrought, The Magic Lantern is a window to the mind of one of our era’s great geniuses. Throughout, Bergman recounts his life in a series of deeply personal flashbacks that document some of the most important moments in twentieth-century filmmaking as well as the private obsessions of the man behind them. More grand mosaic than linear account, Bergman’s vignettes trace his life from a rural Swedish childhood through his work in theater to Hollywood’s golden age, and a tumultuous romantic history that includes five wives and more than a few mistresses. At the editing table, when I run the strip of film through, frame by frame, I still feel that dizzy sense of magic of my childhood.” Bergman, who has conveyed this heady sense of wonder and vision to moviegoers for decades, traces his lifelong love affair with film in his breathtakingly visual autobiography, The Magic Lantern. “When a film is not a document, it is a dream. You can read this before The Magic Lantern PDF full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Magic Lantern written by Ingmar Bergman which was published in 1987–.

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