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Ingmar Bergman and the welfare state

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Author

Summary, in English

Two discourses have more than others dominated foreign apprehension of Sweden in the post-war period: the development of the Swedish model welfare state and the films of Ingmar Bergman. This research project is aimed at studying how these two discourses relate to each other, as expressed by the films of Bergman themselves, the huge corpus of scholarship surrounding them, and the reception, domestic as well as foreign. In the films of Bergman, as I regard them, the philosophical foundations of modern Swedish society is radically challenged.

Department/s

Publishing year

2006

Language

English

Pages

50-59

Publication/Series

Film International

Volume

4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Intellect Ltd.

Topic

  • Arts

Keywords

  • auteurism versus culture
  • faith and knowledge
  • utopian landscapes. post-utopian landscapes
  • Ingmar Bergman
  • Swedish Welfare State
  • post-utopian European cinema

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1651-6826