'Les cercles du temps': Peter Watkins, August Strindberg et la crise de la répresentation bio-historique conventionelle

John R. Cook

'Les cercles du temps': Peter Watkins, August Strindberg et la crise de la répresentation bio-historique conventionelle

Translated title of the contribution: Circles of time: Peter Watkins, August Strindberg and the challenge to historical representation

John R. Cook

Media and Journalism

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Abstract

Following the critical success of Peter Watkins’ Edvard Munch (NRK/ SR, 1973), a biographical film which examined the life and work of the famous Norwegian expressionist painter, the Swedish Film Institute picked up on Watkins’ prior interest in the subject and in November 1978 approached the director with a view to developing a similar project based upon the life of August Strindberg, the Swedish playwright who had actually appeared as a character in the Munch film.

Translated title of the contribution	Circles of time: Peter Watkins, August Strindberg and the challenge to historical representation
Original language	French
Title of host publication	L'insurrection médiatique: Médias, histoire et documentaire dans le cinéma de Peter Watkins
Editors	S. Denis, J. Bertin-Maghit
Publisher	Presses universitaires de Bordeaux
ISBN (Print)	9782867816284
Publication status	Published - 2010

Keywords

film and media
August Strindberg
historical representation
Edvard Munch
Peter Watkins

An Englishman abroad: evening land and the struggles of Peter Watkins within Scandinavian film culture of the 1970s
Cook, J. R., 1 Jun 2024, In: Journal of Scandinavian Cinema. 14, 2, p. 127-141 15 p.
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Book Review: Utopian television: Rossellini, Watkins, and Godard beyond cinema edited by Michael Cramer Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017
Cook, J. R., 15 Aug 2019, In: Visual Studies. p. 1-2 2 p.
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L'insurrection médiatique: Médias, histoire et documentaire dans le cinéma de Peter Watkins. ed. / S. Denis; J. Bertin-Maghit. Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 2010.

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An Englishman abroad: evening land and the struggles of Peter Watkins within Scandinavian film culture of the 1970s

Book Review: Utopian television: Rossellini, Watkins, and Godard beyond cinema edited by Michael Cramer Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017

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