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Music Professor Releases Book on Filmmaker Ingmar Bergman

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Sonatas, Screams and Silence: Music and Sound in the Films of Ingmar Bergman.

Alexis Luko, Assistant Professor of Music in the School for Studies in Art and Culture, cross-appointed to the College of the Humanities, has recently released a book on the life and work of famed Swedish auteur filmmaker Ingmar Bergman titled Sonatas, Screams and Silence: Music and Sound in the Films of Ingmar Bergman.

Prof. Luko’s book is the first musical examination of Bergman’s career. The work, which has just been published by Routledge, explores “all three aspects (music, sound effects, and voice) of Bergman’s signature soundtrack-style… and argues that Bergman’s soundtracks are as superbly developed as his psychological narratives and breathtaking cinematography. Interdisciplinary in nature, this book bridges the fields of music, sound, and film” (Routledge).

Luko has also been awarded a research residency at the Ingmar Bergman Estate on the Island of Fårö off the coast of Gotland where Ingmar Bergman created many of his films.

Learn more about Prof. Luko’s  Sonatas, Screams and Silence: Music and Sound in the Films of Ingmar Bergman.