Ingmar Bergman

Acknowledgments

xxiii acknowledgments Ingmar Bergman was originally published in the United States in 1969 by Praeger Publishers. © 1969 by Movie Magazine Ltd. “Moments of Release” appeared originally in the Times Educational Supplement (March 2, 1973). “Call Me Ishmael” appeared originally in Canadian Forum 41 (November 1983): 41–42. “Persona Revisited” appeared originally in CineAction 34 (June 1994): 59–67 and was revised for Sexual Politics and Narrative Cinema (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998), pp. 248–61. The latter version is included here. “From the Life of the Marionettes: Bergman, Sweden, and Me” appeared originally in Swedish in Filmhäftet 28, no. 111 (2000): 12–20. This new edition would not have been possible without the assistance of Richard Lippe, Robin Wood’s partner of many years and executor of his estate, in granting permission to reprint the material included in this book. Annie Martin, senior acquisitions editor at Wayne State University Press, was a staunch supporter of the project from the beginning and throughout. Michael Tapper, film critic for the Swedish daily Sydsvenskan and the former editor of Filmhäftet, along with the help of Olof Hedling, assistant professor in film studies at Lund University, Sweden, managed to unearth the original English version of “From the Life of the Marionettes: Bergman, Sweden, and Me,” xxiv acknowledgments which was translated into Swedish and originally published in Filmhäftet. Tom Leitch, Department of English at the University of Delaware, and Christopher Sharrett, Department of Communication at Seton Hall University, were eloquent supporters of this book, and with their permission some of their thoughts inevitably have worked their way into the preface. Malisa Kurtz, doctoral student in English at Brock University, Canada, and Fredrik Gustafsson, Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Film Studies, University of St Andrews, Scotland, helped track down some of the references. Daniel Barnowski applied his computer skills to the manuscript once again, and Stephanie Clayton prepared the index. Both are students in Brock’s interdisciplinary MA program in popular culture. Dr. Tom Dunk, Dean of Social Sciences at Brock University, generously provided a research grant to help in the preparation of the book. ...