Between Stage and Screen Ingmar Bergman Directs

Ingmar Bergman is worldwide known as a film and stage director. Yet no-one has attempted to compare his stage and screen activities. InBetween Stage and ScreenEgil Törnqvist examines formal and thematical correspondences and differences between a number of Bergman's stage, screen, and radio productions. In the prologue Bergman's spiritual and aesthetic heritage and his position in the twentieth century media landscape is outlined. In the epilogue the question is answered to what extent one can speak of Bergman's directorial 'method' irrespective of the chosen medium.Tornqvist, Egil is the author of 'Between Stage and Screen Ingmar Bergman Directs' with ISBN 9789053561379 and ISBN 9053561374.