Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Origins 2. Persona: Made in Sweden 3. The Attack on Formal Coherence in Persona 4. The Holocaust in Persona: The Instability of Imagery 5. Bergman's Nazi Past 6. The Reception and Canonization of Ingmar Bergman and Persona Epilogue

About the Author

Peter Ohlin is Professor Emeritus at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He has post-graduate degrees from Stockholm University and the University of New Mexico. In addition to many essays on Ingmar Bergman's films, he has published on James Agee, Pierre Perrault, and modern American authors. He lives in Montreal.