Images and Words in Ingmar Bergman's Films

Like many of his critics Bergman also tends to confuse the term with verbal, a word that is anathema among most film people as it implies that language is made to carry the real message of a film rather than assist the cinematic image or sequence. But we can of course define the term literary in a much broader sense as certain modes of expression pertaining to an art form that may use narrative as its basis (novel); or character conflict (drama); or sound, rhythm, and metaphor (certain types of poetry). Bergman certainly transfers such formal patterns to the screen. In the early stages of his career he tends, however, to rely too much on

Art · Humanities · Kierkegaardian Philosophy and Influence · Literature and Cultural Memory

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  Open Access•David Vázquez Couto•Fotocinema Revista científica de…•2016

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