LARTS 480 Cinema's Search for Meaning: Ingmar Bergman and his "Faith Trilogy" Films
Cinema’s Search for Meaning: Ingmar Bergman and His ‘Faith Trilogy’ Films. Students will view, analyze, and discuss critical films by one of the greatest European directors of the 20th century. Focusing on Bergman’s inquiry into the power of religious faith, and the challenge to that faith in modern age, we will study Bergman’s central works: The Seventh Seal, Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light and The Silence. We will consider these films set against the works of such powerful European philosophers of faith and doubt as Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and Dostoyevsky – philosophers whose writings helped shape Bergman’s own thinking and his visual narratives.