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ART CINBMA AND THB IDBA OF AUTHORSHIP

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ndividuals and institutions affect history, but so do ideas. One of the most influential ideas in cinema history is the belief that a director is

most centrally responsible for a film's form, style, and meanings. Most historians have made this assumption since at least the 1920s, but it was examined and articulated with particular force in postwar European film culture. The debates of that period, along with the films that were drawn into them, shaped filmmaking all over the world.

THE RISE AND SPREAD OF THE AUTEUR THEORY
Since the mid-1940s, French directors and screenwriters quarreled over who could
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"I am much more a man of the theatre than a man of the film."4 Bergman was able to turn out films quickly partly because he cultivated a troupe of per­ formers-Eva Dahlbeck, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Harriet Andersson, Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, and Max von Sydow. His staging and shooting techniques have usu­ ally been at the service of the dramatic values of his scripts. His 1950s work applied deep-focus and long­ take tactics to scenes of intense psychological reflection

and Alexan­

der

(1983), which was an international box-office tri­

umph and winner of four Academy Awards. Following the completion of his television film

After the Rehearsal

(1984), Bergman retired from filmmaking. Into his films Bergman poured his dreams, memo­ ries, guilts, and fantasies. Events from his childhood

Fanny and A lexander. His loss of a lover shaped Summer Interlude, while his domestic life was the basis of Scenes from a Marriage.
Thus Bergman's private world became public property.

recur from his earliest works to

( 1 9.9). After Cries and Wh ispers he relied more on zoom shots. Throughout his career he drew on the ex­ pressionist tradition (19. 1 0, 1 9.1 1 ).

Ingmar Bergman ( 19


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