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The Magic Lantern : an Autobiography by Ingmar Bergman is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Magic Lantern : an Autobiography about?

<p><P>&#8220;When a film is not a document, it is a dream. . . . At the editing table, when I run the strip of film through, frame by frame, I still feel that dizzy sense of magic of my childhood.&#8221; Bergman, who has conveyed this heady sense of wonder and vision to moviegoers for decades, traces his lifelong love affair with film in his breathtakingly visual autobiography, <i>The Magic Lantern</i>.<br><br>More grand mosaic than linear account, Bergman&#8217;s vignettes trace his life from a rural Swedish childhood through his work in theater to Hollywood&#8217;s golden age, and a tumultuous romantic history that includes five wives and more than a few mistresses. Throughout, Bergman recounts his life in a series of deeply personal flashbacks that document some of the most important moments in twentieth-century filmmaking as well as the private obsessions of the man behind them. Ambitious in scope yet sensitively wrought, <i>The Magic Lantern</i> is a window to the mind of one of our era&#8217;s great geniuses.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&#8220;[Bergman] has found a way to show the soul&#8217;s landscape&nbsp;. . . . Many gripping revelations.&#8221;&#8212;<i>New York Times Book Review

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Ingmar Bergman
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Published
2007
Language
EN
ISBN
9780241121474
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Sports, Literary Fiction, Memoir
Rating
4.07 / 5 (1,137 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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