[Commlist] CFP Ingmar Bergman out of focus: translations, receptions & interpretations

CFP international workshop:**

*Ingmar Bergman out of focus***

Translations, Receptions & Interpretations**

In Spring 2022, Örebro University will hold an international workshop 
focusing on the rich interpretations that Ingmar Bergman's work has been 
generating over the last seven decades, and on the impact of Ingmar 
Bergman on and in film history and in different cultural contexts.

Being one of the main representatives of European modernist cinema, 
Ingmar Bergman’s oeuvre has been the subject of heated debate and 
various readings. The rapid canonization of his work after his 
international breakthrough in 1956 has tended to reinforce an 
interpretation of Bergman as "the auteur", usually written from a high 
art perspective. As Bergman-scholar Maaret Koskinen repeatedly pointed 
out, discourses around Bergman were always a mix between high art and 
the popular, both at home in Sweden and abroad. His films attracted a 
variety of audiences seeking redemptive messages, liberal agendas, 
religious transcendence, and/or eroticism. Beyond his titles, Bergman's 
strong public image as quintessential modernist filmmaker has usually 
functioned as a productive intersection of (sometimes contradictory) 
images, interests and discourses. Bergman has been alternatively seen as 
an artist, the main voice of Swedish cinema, a creative genius between 
cinema and other media, a transcendental artist or a clown, as well as a 
danger to the national youth, a source of moral disorder or a ‘too 
theatrical’ filmmaker. Given the different (national) contexts and time 
periods, one could argue that each audience has generated its own ‘Bergman’.

This workshop aims to bring together scholars interested in shedding 
light on some of these contexts and film cultures, as we believe that 
understanding Ingmar Bergman’s interpretations is also a productive way 
of understanding how a significant part of film history has been seen 
and commented on, adopted and adapted, written and read. Bergman was a 
filmmaker, but for cinephiles, critics, and audiences around the word he 
was also more than that: the images projected on the Swedish auteur 
function as a telling example that film history can not be just reduced 
to a history of its films. In this regard, this symposium sees itself as 
a timely contribution to the analysis of /film culture/, that is, the 
institutions, discourses, places and practices that are not films but 
without which there would be no films. This relates, in the tradition of 
New Cinema History, to the cinema as a site of cultural exchange, but it 
also goes beyond and includes discourses in specialized magazines, 
practices at institutions such as film clubs, festivals, film schools 
etc. New Cinema History as a field is in nature transdisciplinary – a 
variety we wish to maintain in our workshop – such as memory and oral 
history research, social and economic historiography, geography, social 
anthropology, ethnography, cultural and memory studies, and area/urban 
studies. We therefore encourage participants from a variety of academic 
backgrounds to participate (such as, but not limited to, film and media 
studies, anthropology, art and cultural history). Additionally, we aim 
to include global, comparative, and/or peripheral perspectives on this 
topic.

Considering these aspects, this workshop is interested in contributions 
that could, but are not limited to, illuminate some of the following 
subjects:

  * A Swedish auteur: Bergman’s reception in different local and/or
    national film cultures & political climates;
  * International, transnational, world cinema; Bergman as brand:
    commerce of auteurism;
  * Audience reception in terms of admissions, circulation, oral
    history, emotional experiences;
  * High and Low: Critical reception, cinephilic anxieties, canonisation;
  * Artistic reinterpretations of Bergman (adaptations and remakes);
  * Gendered audiences, gendered history; women portrayed by men;
  * Religious interpretations / catholic vs protestant;
  * Paratextual information informing the interpretations;
  * Beyond the auteur / back to the auteur? Contemporary readings on
    Bergman;
  * And Bergman in popular cinema, TV and other media.
The *workshop *will take place *29 & 30 April 2022*, and will be held at 
Örebro University, with the option of participating online. *Jan 
Holmberg, CEO of the Ingmar Bergman Archive in Stockholm*, will give a 
keynote presentation.

In conjunction with the workshop, a follow-up volume in a leading 
academic publishing house is planned.

Please submit full contact information, a short biography that explains 
your background and field (of no more than 300 words) and an abstract 
(of no more than 500 words) on the topic you would like to work on to 
the following address: (IBoutoffocus /at/ gmail.com)

The call for papers will close on *01.12.2021.* The authors of selected 
contributions will be notified by 15.01.2022 if the proposal has been 
accepted.


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