Gender and Representation in the Films of Ingmar Bergman (Studies in Scandinavian Literature and Culture)

A detailed feminist study of Bergman's most important films. 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.