At a time when few reviewers and critics were taking the study of film seriously, Robin Wood released a careful and thoroughly cinematic commentary on Ingmar Bergman s films that demonstrated the potential of film analysis in a nascent scholarly field.
The original Ingmar Bergman influenced a generation of film scholars and cineastes after its publication in 1969 and remains one of the most important volumes on the director. This new edition of Ingmar Bergman, edited by film scholar Barry Keith Grant, contains all of Wood s original text plus four later pieces on the director by Wood that were intended for a new volume that was not completed before Wood s death in 2010.