title: THE REAPING OF DEATH IN “THE SEVENTH seal ” BY INGMAR BERGMAN (to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the film creation)
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metadata.value: Sinitsyn, Alexander
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metadata.value: Sinitsyna, Eugenia
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2017-07-15T19:27:37Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2017-07-15T19:27:37Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2016-12
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu21.2016.210
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/6808
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metadata.value: Medieval aesthetics, mysticism, sheer symbolism and special stylistics of “The Seventh
  Seal” (1956) distinguish this film from other ‘historiographical’ works made by
  the Scandinavian director and thinker, Ingmar Berman (1918–2007). In spite of the
  historical background of Bergman’s works, none of them can be called, without reserve,
  strictly historical. According to art critics, “The Seventh Seal” has had the greatest impact
  on all films about the history of the Middle Ages and culture. It is not history as
  such that the Swedish director and thinker is concerned about; rather, he is interested
  in existential topics, problems tormenting his heroes, their quests, their doubts and
  anxieties. Here, likewise in all other ‘historiographical’ pictures made by Bergman, the
  historical realities serve as a background against which the drama is being acted out.
  The film has nothing to do with the so-called pre-expectant idealization of the culture
  of the knightly Middle Ages. The authors of this essay discuss the symbolic nature of
  Death in “The Seventh Seal”, Antonius Block’s behaviour, when he faces the Angel of
  Death, and the behaviour of other characters featured in the film. For a genuine knight,
  whose cause should be that of devotion, Block as a personification of doubt and search
  is a ‘wrong kind’ of knight. Isolated from the world, alone to grapple with his doubts,
  Block realizes that all that has happened to him is futile, meaningless, and that he must
  grasp something essential to fill his spiritual void. “The Seventh Seal” is the most ‘panmortal’
  picture wrought by Bergman. Death reigns supreme in the world depicted by
  the Master. The ‘finale’ of the article raises the issue of the characters who, though deeply
  involved, do not appear in Dödsdansen of the Epilogue.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 14; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Scandinavian art
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Swedish cinema
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ingmar Bergman
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: “The Seventh Seal”
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: knight
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: death
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: “historiographical cinema’
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Middle Ages
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Dödsdansen
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: faith
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: solitude
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: THE REAPING OF DEATH IN “THE SEVENTH seal ” BY INGMAR BERGMAN (to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the film creation)
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metadata.value: Article
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