Whatever Happened to Ingmar Bergman? Reception, Methodologies, and Academic Agendas – a Case Study, 7.5 ECTS
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Description
The course offers an investigation and discussion of Bergman’s work, historically as well as theoretically, based on a variety of perspectives and approaches: Swedish film history, as well as national, regional and transnational theory; media archaeological viewpoints; revisionist auteur studies; socio-political, cultural and gender / queer studies, etc.
Background to the course: It has occasionally been said that the academic world renews itself by consuming its own history: one day some phenomena are worth exploring, the next they seem completely obsolete and focus is directed towards another direction. This also applies in large part to the field of Cinema Studies, in which phenomena can be re-evaluated due to cultural and social changes, but also in academic reality. A grateful example to study from this perspective is Ingmar Bergman’s multi-faceted production for four decades.
The course consists of a series of lectures / seminars led by teachers at the Section for Cinema Studies in line with the interdisciplinary traditions of the subject and the special areas of the researchers.
Area of interests: Arts and Humanities
How are different cultures created and how do they affect us? Arts and Humanities is an area of interest that includes a wide variety of subjects such as Archaeology, Philosophy, History, Religion, Ethnology, Literature, and Theatre and Performance Studies. In one way or another these subjects are an expression of how culture affects human beings and society. As a student you will improve your analytical skills and learn to identify different lines of development, often in an interdisciplinary context. Studies within Arts and Humanities give you broad general competence that is very useful in the job market, where autonomy, analytical and communication skills are in great demand.
Subject
Cinema Studies
Cinema Studies is the study of moving images and screen cultures centered around film, film experience, and phenomena surrounding films. Historically, it ranges from image cultures before film, to the screens and digital platforms of today. The field is broad and can be found at institutions around the world under the designations of Film Studies, Television Studies, Media Studies, Visual Arts, Cultural Studies, Film and Media History, and Moving Image Studies.
The objects of study can be specific films, production cultures, genre, auteur, intermedial and trans-medial relations, archives, circulation and distribution, reception (audience, critique), film culture, media industries, institutional frameworks (legal, political, economic), technological arrangements or streaming platforms.
Approaches and perspectives applied can be genre or narrative analysis, aesthetics, auteur criticism, reception studies, critique of filmic representations, post-colonial or gender perspectives, celebrity culture, or perspectives from political economy and cultural studies.
The field is informed by Literature, History and Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Linguistics, Psychology, Sociology, and Economics. Cinema Studies at Stockholm University is focused on historical perspectives and key medial moments of transformation, Ingmar Bergman, as well as contemporary film and mediascapes.