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The Man from the Third Row: Hasse Ekman, Swedish Cinema and the Long Shadow of Ingmar Bergman

By Fredrik Gustafsson

Book information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2016
ISBN
9781785332517
DOI
10.1515/9781785332517
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
707 kB (723628 bytes)
Pages
176\176
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-20 03:54:31

Description

Until his early retirement at age 50, Hasse Ekman was one of the leading lights of Swedish cinema, an actor, writer, and director of prodigious talents. Yet today his work is virtually unknown outside of Sweden, eclipsed by the filmography of his occasional collaborator (and frequent rival) Ingmar Bergman. This comprehensive introduction—the first ever in English—follows Ekman’s career from his  early days as a film journalist, through landmark films such as Girl with Hyacinths (1950), to his retirement amid exhaustion and disillusionment. Combining historical context with insightful analyses of Ekman’s styles and themes, this long overdue study considerably enriches our understanding of Swedish film history.

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