PART ONE Backdrops and Contexts
1. National Cinema, Art Film, and the Auteur
The Auteur Contextualized
Antonioni: "That Perpetual Foil to Bergman"
Art Versus Business
The Auteur as Star
The Art of Reinventing Authorship
2. Censorship Issues: Sex, Women, and Hollywood
The Silence at Home: Debate and Controversy
The Silence Abroad: "The Bergman Ballyhoo Era"
Gender Issues: Now What About All These Women?
Director and Actress: Nudity and Power Relations
PART TWO Works in Progress: Intermedial Variations
3. In the Beginning Was (the Fear of) the Word: Notebooks
From Word to Sound . . . to Music and Painting
4. In Between Words and Images: Manuscripts and Screenplays
Edits: Too Many Words
Sex and the City: The Eroticism of Language
The Published Screenplay: Senses and Synesthetics
Excursion: Flash Forward to a Writer Let Loose
PART THREE The Finished Film
5. Framing the Senses
Sounds and Linguistic Voids
Beginnings: Windows and Sights
Paintings and Tableaux Vivants
The Phenomenology of Vision: Hotel Excursions
The Eroticism of Vision: Mirrors and Doorways
The Close-Up: The Bergman Icon
Conclusion
Production Notes
Filmography
Transcript of the U.S. Trailer for The Silence
Bibliography