Ingmar Bergman Out of Focus

Jono Van Belle is an Assistant Professor in Media and Communications Studies at Örebro University in Sweden. She gained her doctorate in Communication and Cinema Studies jointly at Ghent University and Stockholm University in 2019. Focusing especially on Ingmar Bergman, cinema memory, audience reception, gender studies, and media policy, she has worked on the reception of Ingmar Bergman in Sweden and Belgium and, together with Åsa Jernudd, on cinemagoing in Sweden during the 1950s and 1960s.

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Acknowledgments



Foreword

Jan Holmberg (CEO of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation)



Introduction

Fernando Ramos Arenas, Jono Van Belle, and María Paz Peirano



Chapter 1. Off the Beaten Track: Birgitta Steene’s Pioneering Reception Research on Ingmar Bergman

Jono van Belle



Chapter. Reception of Ingmar Bergman and the Concept of ‘Art Cinema’ in Chile and Argentina (1950s–1960s)

Alejandro Kelly-Hopfenblatt & María Paz Peirano



Chapter 3. Did Uruguay Discover Bergman? The Early reception of Swedish Cinema and the Trails of a Shared Modern Feeling

Mariana Amieva



Chapter 4. The Making and Unmaking of Ingmar Bergman, Religious Filmmaker. Arthouse and Catholicism in Spain (1960–63)

Fernando Ramos Arenas



Chapter 5. The Castaway of the Post-Thaw Tide: The 1959/1960 ‘Bergman Season’ in the People’s Republic of Poland

Konrad Klejsa



Chapter 6. Discussed, Demonised, Disputed: The Film Critic as Gatekeeper on the Path towards Bergman’s Canonisation in Italy

Giulio Tosi



Chapter 7. We Live in the Same World: Fan Mail to Ingmar Bergman

Eirik Frisvold Hanssen



Chapter 8. Accessing Ingmar Bergman in Twenty-First Century India: Film Festivals, Societies and Filmmakers as Reception Pathways

Ashvin Immanuel Devasundaram



Conclusion

Fernando Ramos Arenas, Jono Van Belle, and María Paz Peirano



List of Film Titles

Index